Amphibian Rescue

When amphibians began disappearing around the world, conservation had to change. This podcast tells the story of how scientists uncovered the global amphibian extinction crisis and how that realization led to the need and creation of Amphibian Ark back in 2006, a global initiative working to prevent species loss through ex situ conservation. Through conversations and stories from conservationists, researchers, and institutions around the world, this podcast explores how ex situ conservation, including rescue, managed care, and conservation breeding, has become a critical tool for giving frogs, salamanders, and caecilians a second chance. ___ Launched in celebration of 20 years of Amphibian Ark, this podcast is produced and hosted by María Braeuner, reviewed and fact-checked by the Amphibian Ark team of experts, and made possible by the generous support of our donors around the world. With original music by Pablo Bolaños | Biota-Specimens: https://biota-specimens.com Support o

Amphibian Rescue is a science podcast hosted by Amphibian Ark, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #4

  E04: Rescuing the Corroboree Frogs with Michael McFadden

  May 1, 202639 minS0

  <p>E04 – How they brought the Corroboree frogs back from the brink </p><p><br></p><p>In Episode 4 of Amphibian Rescue, we travel to the Australian Alps to explore a successful and long-standing rescue effort to save the Southern and Northern Corroboree frogs.  </p><p>Michael McFadden, Wildlife Conservation Officer at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, takes us inside more than two decades of work to prevent the extinction of these tiny, striking black-and-yellow species that have been pushed to the brink by chytrid fungus. </p><p>We explore how scientists and conservationists built insurance populations from eggs collected in the wi...

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  Episode #4

  E04: Rescuing the Corroboree Frogs with Michael McFadden

  May 1, 202648 minS0

  <p>E04 – Rescuing the Corroboree frogs </p><p>In Episode 4 of Amphibian Rescue, we travel to the Australian Alps to explore a successful and long-standing rescue effort to save the Southern and Northern Corroboree frogs.  </p><p>Michael McFadden, Wildlife Conservation Officer at Taronga Conservation Society Australia, takes us inside more than two decades of work to prevent the extinction of these tiny, striking black-and-yellow species that have been pushed to the brink by chytrid fungus. </p><p>We explore how scientists and conservationists built insurance populations from eggs collected in the wild, learned how to breed a uniquely challenging species, and devel...

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  Episode #3

  E03: Rescuing Amphibians in Crisis with Dr. Bob Lacy & Jonathan Wilcken

  Mar 6, 202628 minS0

  <h1>E03 – What is conservation breeding?</h1><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Bob helps us understand how conservation breeding works as a response to the amphibian extinction crisis, especially when chytrid fungus makes protecting wild populations impossible and “insurance populations" are needed to prevent species loss.</p><p>Drawing on Bob’s experience, the episode traces early work on the Puerto Rican toad (sapo concho), then goes on to unpack population management and conservation breeding.</p><p>Then, together with Amphibian Ark’s Executive Director, Jonathan Wilcken, we outline the way Amphibian Ark works today and how it is going...

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  Episode #2

  E02: Founding the Amphibian Ark with Dr. Onnie Byers & Dr. Bob Lacy

  Mar 6, 202628 minS0

  <h2>E02 - Building Amphibian Ark: a crisis-response organization for threatened amphibians</h2><p><br></p><p>In Episode 2 of Amphibian Rescue, we trace the rapid shift from alarm to action that led to Amphibian Ark. After the 2004 Global Amphibian Assessment confirmed amphibians as the most threatened vertebrates and chytrid fungus spread globally, a 2005 summit in Washington, DC helped shape the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan and sparked the idea of emergency “survival assurance colonies,” with the idea of an “Amphibian Ark” coined there.</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Bob Lacy and Dr. Onnie Byers describe how IUCN’s CBSG/CPSG, ASG...

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  Episode #1

  E01: The Forgotten Crisis with Dr. Joe Mendelson

  Mar 6, 202637 minS0

  <h1>E01: Where have all the frogs gone?</h1><p><br></p><p>In Episode 1 of Amphibian Rescue, we go back to the beginning. Herpetologist Dr. Joe Mendelson takes us through the earliest signs of global amphibian declines and the timeline of how scientists went from dismissing the idea to finally accepting that there was a crisis to respond to.</p><p>Joe recounts how scientists worldwide initially dismissed disappearances as bad years until patterns converged at the 1989 World Congress of Herpetology and later evidence pointed to disease. The episode follows the slow recognition of chytridiomycosis, and Karen Lips’ documentation of...

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