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A Great Short Video about Chytrid and Panamanian Frogs featuring our friend and collaborator Edgardo Griffin!

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Bsal Fact Sheet

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If you are concerned about the recently described chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans ( Bsal ), which has been up to 100% lethal to infected salamanders in Europe, please read this current fact sheet issued by the Department of Defense. For the latest news on Bsal, please see salamanderfungus.org, or visit us on Twitter @salamanderfungi or on Facebook.

Some recent (and finally positive!!) news on the emergent amphibian infectious disease — chytrid fungus

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  Two articles published on the internet today about the new chytrid research published from Spain! BBC News Report Wired.com

Evidence How Biodiversity Buffers Disease

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/10/study-proves-biodiversity-buffers-disease

Our Amphibian Conservation Program featured in Friday's AJC!!

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Elizabeth Montgomery from the AJC wrote a very nice piece on our Amphibian Conservation Program. Images and captions on the link below. Thanks, Elizabeth! Photos: The frogs at Atlanta Botanical Garden

Rabb's Fringe-limbed Treefrog featured in this month's National Geographic!

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Thank you to Joel Sartore and Nat Geo for helping to get his story out there!

Recent research on chytrid fungus: Crayfish can also be vectors

http://www.conservationmagazine.org/2012/12/hidden-hosts/