Mitsinjo captive breeding program update

Between October and November 2020, substantial progress was made towards achiveing the ob- jectives of the amphibian captive breeding at ASA partner Mitsinjo research center. In total, there are currently more than 150 terraria occupied with 11 common species and 1 Critically Endangered species. All frog species are active and […]

Reactivating the Lake Junín Giant Frog monitoring

The world is going through difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic (WWF, 2020). Many people have been affected in their health and economy; businesses and NGOs have stopped their activities and reduced their budgets among other things (Smith-Bingham & Harlharan, 2020; Crothers, 2020). However, solidarity among […]

Amphibian population impacts from swimming pools

Osprey LLC dba Froglog Co. is interested in collaboration with a researcher to model the impacts that swimming pools have on local amphibian populations and come up with an estimate of the overall impact. We are also especially interested in the impact pools may have on endangered amphibians that occur […]

400 Frogs released!

On 10 November 2020, the Joburg Zoo transported 450 captive-bred frogs and tadpoles from their Pickersgill’s Reed Frog breeding program for release at two sites in Durban, South Africa. This forms part of the work that has been laid out in the Biodiversity […]

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