In 2021, we received approximately 50 applications from the ASA Start-up Conservation Grants call, of which we will be able to fund six. The project featured below is the first recipient of the ASA Phil Bishop Conservation Grant. Professor Phil Bishop (1957–2021) worked as ASA’s Chief Scientist from day one, […]
Croak: A book of fun for frog lovers, compiled by the late Prof. Phil Bishop and recently published by Exisle Publishing, delivers what it promises. Throughout its 160 pages, readers are treated to beautiful images of amphibians accompanied by funny and touching quotes from amphibian lovers.
With quotes from […]
In 2021, we received approximately 50 applications from the ASA Start-up Conservation Grants call. On the one hand, this high number of applications demonstrates there are amazing amphibian conservation projects being conducted worldwide. However, it also illustrates how many organisations are in urgent need of funding to conserve amphibians. Because […]
The Future Leaders of Amphibian Conservation program is an award to a number of early-career conservationists from around the world that have been identified by the Amphibian Survival Alliance as the next generation of amphibian conservationists. So far we have awarded 19 Future Leaders from 12 countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, […]
Amphibians are bioindicators of an ecosystem’s health and may also serve as biological control of crop and forest pests. The First Herpetological Congress, organized in 1989, presented alarming findings about the decline in amphibian populations. Currently, amphibians include the highest percentage of threatened species (>40%), as well as the highest […]
