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Amazing Amphibians Stories of Success Issue number 106 (April 2013) ISSN: 1026-0269 eISSN: 1817-3934 Volume 21, number 2 www.amphibians.orgFrogLog Promoting Conservation, Research and Education for the World’s Amphibians INSIDE News from the ASG Regional Updates Amphibian Conservation Accomplishments Establishment of the Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center Recent Publications And More … Plectrohyla dasypus. Photo by: Jonathan Kolby. Amazing Stories of Success Amphibians FrogLog 21 (2), Number 106 (April 2013) | 1 FrogLog CONTENTS 3 Editorial NEWS FROM THE AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY 4 Membership Update 14 Proactive Conservation of Malagasy Frogs: Development 6 How To Engage In Policy Without Staff? of Probiotic Conservation Strategies 7 We Want To Help Your Conservation Project 17 The Spiny Giant Frog 8 FrogLog and Alytes 17 The Hellbender 8 Regional ASG Update—Peru 10 2012 Amphibian Conservation Accomplishments in AZA Institutions REGIONAL FOCUS — THE AMERICAS 19 Evidence for Amphibian 41 Implementing Recovery Actions Flooded Forest Conservation: A Global Synopsis for the Threatened Coquí Guajón 65 Monitoring an Endemic Amphibian 20 The SPLAT Project: Mitigating (Eleutherodactylus cooki): Where to Along a Natural Gas Pipeline in the Amphibian Road Mortality in Start? Peruvian Andes the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO 43 A Unique Collaboration 69 The 2012 Field Course on Biosphere Reserve 46 Preventing Amphibian Extinction Amphibian Conservation in Peru 23 Salamander Watch in Honduras: Establishment of the 70 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in 24 “A Small but Beautiful Bit of Light:” Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Peru Conservation Center Citizen Science for Amphibian 72 Agricultural Frontier Expands on Conservation in Southwest New 53 Captive Breeding of the Frog par with Constraints to Protect Hampshire Mannophryne herminae (Anura: Amphibians and Reptiles 28 Wetlands Restoration: Crafting Aromobatidae) and Releases to the Wild in Venezuela 73 Some Updates in the Conservation Successful Messages for the Public of Bolivian Amphibians 55 Amphibians of the Tama National 31 Promoting Amphibian Conservation 75 The First Ramsar Sites for Through the College Classroom Park: Hidden Biodiversity and New Salamander Species from Colombia Conserve One Community 34 Anuran Monitoring in the Sierra Amphibians In Mexico Nevada, California, U.S. 58 Lethal and Lovely: An Interview with the Founders of the Golden 79 The Catalogue of Colombian 37 Topsin-M®: How One Pesticide Poison Frog Reserve Amphibians and Reptiles is Changing How We Look at Amphibian Toxicology 60 Ecosystem Services Provided by Neotropical Amphibians and 39 Monitoring Environmental Reptiles: A General Overview Pollution and Sublethal Effects in Giant Toad from Coatzacoalcos, 62 The Importance of Floating Mexico Meadows for Amphibians in a Recent Publications 80 | Meetings 88 | Internships & Employment 88 Funding Opportunities 88 | Author Instructions 92 2 | FrogLog 21 (2), Number 106 (April 2013) Editorial FrogLog ASG Secretariat mphibian conservation is about more than just avoiding extinction or talk- ing about what is going wrong—it is about motivating others. It is about Claude Gascon A shining the spotlight on projects that are working and thereby providing a ASG Co-Chair model to copy and implement elsewhere. This edition of FrogLog is about these am- phibian conservation success stories. These stories range from protecting, restoring Phillip J. Bishop or creating habitats to captive breeding and releases, as well as the implementation ASG Co-Chair of conservation education and awareness programs. Robin D. Moore This edition of FrogLog is also about the power of collaboration. Our ability to achieve these conservation successes depends on our willingness to collaborate with ASG Program Officer others. The issues facing amphibians are dynamic and interrelated. It is very rare Candace M. Hansen that you have a single organization or individual with the resources and the ability to single-handedly and effectively tackle the combination of these issues. ASG Program Officer Organizations with a vested interest in conservation are constantly understaffed James P. Lewis and underfunded. The ability to pool these resources together through collabora- ASG Program Officer tive efforts becomes an extremely powerful and effective conservation tool. Each organization or individual that comes together on a project brings their own unique Ariadne Angulo set of diverse skills and strengths to the table that when combined, can achieve great Amphibian RLA Coordinator things. Jennifer Luedtke George Bernard Shaw wrote, “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we Amphibian RLA Deputy exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have Coordinator an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” As the new IUCN quadrennium gets underway, it is my pleasure and honour to extend a warm welcome to the over 400 members of the Amphibian Specialist Group. Each of you brings to the group a diverse range of skills, approaches and FrogLog Editorial Board backgrounds, which makes the ASG a truly global authority on amphibian research Editor-in-chief and conservation. Candace M. Hansen Over the course of the next four years we look forward to working together with all of you to develop even more amphibian conservation success stories. And we Editors encourage you to share your success stories with us—we want to hear from you and Craig Hassapakis we want to help share your stories with others. James P. Lewis Candace M. Hansen ASG Program Officer Editorial Office Global Wildlife Conservation PO Box 129, Austin, TX 78767, USA [email protected] Please consider the environment before printing this publication. FrogLog 21 (2), Number 106Reduce, (April reuse, 2013) recycle. | 3 NEWS FROM THE AMPHIBIAN COMMUNITY Membership Update hank you to all those who registered with the ASG during the 2013-2016 quadrennium registration period. In total we T received 468 membership registration forms from members in approximately 80 countries. There are now 41 Regional Groups within the ASG with several new groups looking to be established in the next few months. The information collected in the membership registration form will enable us to help identify the priorities for the ASG during the course of this quadrennium and an annual report to be published later this year will outline these priorities. During the course of the coming months members of the ASG will be invited to join working groups designed to help tackle spe- cific challenges relating to amphibian conservation. If you are interested in joining the ASG or think your name has been accidentally omitted from the list below, or if you know of someone who is not on the list and should be, please feel free to contact ASG Program Officer, James Lewis (jplewis@amphibians. org). Andrés Acosta Federico Bolaños Paul Chippindale Dana Delgado Michael Adams Wilmar Bolívar Manuel Chirosa J. Amanda Delgado Cornejo Ramesh Aggarwal Marites Bonachita-Sanguila Wen-Hao Chou Mathieu Denoël Rodrigo Aguayo Sabitry Choudhury Bordoloi Yodchaiy Chuaynkern Carmen Díaz-Paniagua Cesar Aguilar Philip Bowles Don Church Arvin Diesmos Norhayati Ahmad David Bradford Diego Cisneros-Heredia Mae Lowe Diesmos Firoz Ahmed Alvin Braswell John Clarke Ken Dodd Martins Aisien Rafe Brown Dan Cogalniceanu Stefano Doglio Mauricio Sebastián Akmentins Patricia Burrowes Hal Cogger David Donaire Angel Alcala R Bruce Bury James Collins Maureen Donnelly Ross Alford Beryl Bwong Luis Coloma Alwin Dornelly Ana Almendariz Pier Cacciali Werner Conradie Paul Doughty A. A. Thasun Amarasinghe John Cadle Valeria Corbalán Joseph Doumbia Steven C. Anderson John Alexander Calderon Jesus H. Cordova Louis Du Preez Franco Andreone Claudia Camacho Juan Nicolás Corral Gómez Tatjana Dujsebayeva Ariadne Angulo David Cannatella Claudia Cortez Camila Duran Prieto Brandon Anthony Ulisses Caramaschi Claudia Corti Rhimou El Hamoumi Anchalee Aowphol Angus Carpenter Andrew Crawford El Hassan El Mouden María Cristina Ardila-Robayo Franklin Castañeda Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović Daniel Escoriza Umilaela Arifin Alessandro Catenazzi Pierre-Andre Crochet Mario Espinal Luis Orlando Armesto Rubie Causaren Martha Crump Alberto R Estrada-Acosta Adrian Armstrong José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez Andrew Cunningham Julian Faivovich Jan Arntzen Bosco P.L. Chan Michael Cunningham Liang Fei Mikhail F. Bagaturov Kin Onn Chan Pham The Cuong Jiří Francek Emilio Balletto Tanya Chanard Jennifer Daltry Thierry Fretey Chris Banks Min-Ho Chang Indraneil Das Sarig Gafny Lucas Barrientos Alan Channing Sanjay Das Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia Rogerio Bastos Juan Chaparro Tim Davenport Sandra Galeano Sudesh Batuwita Yankho Chapeta Andrés David Silvia Garay Christopher Beachy Gerardo Chaves Cordero Daniel Davila-Casanova Gerardo Garcia Peter Beerli Giovanni Alberto Ignacio De la Riva Paulo Garcia Manfred Beier Chaves Portilla Catia De Paula Juan Elías García-Pérez Ben Bell Germán Chávez Philip de Pous Adrian García-Rodríguez Jihène Ben Hassine Srinivasulu Chelmala Rafael de Sá Andrew Gardner Phil Bishop Xiaohong Chen Anslem de Silva Trenton Garner David Blackburn Lahcen Chillasse Atherton De Villiers Claude Gascon 4 | FrogLog 21 (2), Number 106 (April 2013) Avital Gasith Robert Kaplan Yolanda Matamoros Carlos Pacheco Justin Gerlach D.M.S. 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