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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project

@amphibianrescue.bsky.social
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Captive breeding and reintroduction of endangered frogs. Research to mitigate the amphibian chytrid fungus. Partnership with the Smithsonian National Zoo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Zoo New England and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Herpetology.

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Brian Gratwicke @briangratwicke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
amphibianrescue.org/climate-refu... after 20 years of studying amphibian declines in Panama we have modeled seasonal disease patterns to identify places that may act as climatic refuges from disease. #herpetology 🧪
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Climate Refuges May Be Key To Restoring Imperiled Amphibians - Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
New Research Identifies Disease-Free Havens Where Captive-BredFrogs May Have the Best Chance of Survival As a deadly fungal disease ravages wild frog populations around the globe, scientists have iden...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our new paper showing that harlequin frogs in Panama are surviving in places that are climatic refuges from the amphibian chytrid fungus #amphibianresilience amphibianrescue.org/climate-refu...
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Climate Refuges May Be Key To Restoring Imperiled Amphibians - Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
New Research Identifies Disease-Free Havens Where Captive-BredFrogs May Have the Best Chance of Survival As a deadly fungal disease ravages wild frog populations around the globe, scientists have iden...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Team frog celebrating a great year for progress in Panama City
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It was a great privilege to finally see golden frogs walking in their rightful place 20 years since their disappearance amphibianrescue.org/golden-frogs... #amphibianresilience #ranadorada
Beautiful neon yellow frog on a stream bank with waterfall in the background Director of the Panama amphibian rescue and conservation project Roberto Ibanez releasing golden frogs into a mesh cage
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Hope returns to Panama's rainforests - read about how we rediscovered endangered frog species in Panama using acoustic recording www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/nation... #amphibianresilience by @briangratwicke.bsky.social
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Hope Returns to Panama’s Forests With the Rediscovery of Four Missing Frog Species
Smithsonian researcher Brian Gratwicke and colleagues describe how acoustic technology aided the remarkable rediscovery of four amphibian populations thought to have vanished from Panama’s mountain fo...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thanks to @dinograndoni.bsky.social and photographer Melina Mara @washingtonpost.com for this great piece supported by the Pulitzer Center covering our efforts to mend broken tropical frog populations and their importance to human health #amphibianresilience #anfibioresiliente bit.ly/4r1hblm
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First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
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Dino Grandoni @dinograndoni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In biblical times, frogs were seen as a plague Today, thanks to new research, we know they’re actually guardians against disease 1/5
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Dino Grandoni @dinograndoni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
As a frog-killing fungus swept Central America, scientists saw a remarkable chain of events With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria climbed 2/5
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Dino Grandoni @dinograndoni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
The discovery is part of a new area of research in which ecologists and economists find hidden ways many plants and animals — including wolves, bats, birds and trees — underpin human well-being They are learning that without saving nature, we can’t save ourselves 3/5
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Dino Grandoni @dinograndoni.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Read the full story here, as Melina Mara and I go around Panama talking to frog and mosquito researchers as well as everyday Panamanians who have had malaria 4/5 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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First, the frogs died. Then people got sick.
An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A neat story about our translocation efforts to restore Pratt's rocket frogs to one of Panama's National Parks @mongabay.com #AmphibianResilience #AnfibioResiliente news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-p...
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In Panama, poison dart frog move brings hope amid amphibians’ fight with fungus
Measuring a bit more than 20 millimeters (0.8 inches), Pratt’s poison frog (Colostethus pratti) is not the kind of frog that would get attention. Although part of the Dendrobatidae family, known for i...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
We are collaborating with Goncalo Rosa from IMIB Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC) and Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Julie Dogger from University of Amsterdam to see if treating mesocosms with antifungals can boosts survival of lemur leaf frogs. #amphibianresilience
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Our release trials for Agalychnis lemur tadpoles are going swimmingly. More than 90% survival to metamorphosis so far! #amphibianresilience
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Brian Gratwicke @briangratwicke.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Caecilians are the legless amphibians, they are rarely seen due to their fossorial habits, so moments like these are very special. This yellow headed caecilian was found in Gamboa Panama behind @amphibianrescue #amphibianresilience
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Brian Gratwicke @briangratwicke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Got to see my first Sylvia’s tree frog last night #cruziohyla what a spectacular frog! ❤️❤️❤️🐸🇵🇦
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Nice feature in nature on Anthony Waddle's work with the frog sauna chytrid mitigation for green and golden bell frogs in Australia www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A sit in the sauna can save endangered frogs
Anthony Waddle’s unconventional approach resulted in a stunningly practical solution to fight a deadly fungal infection.
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Take a peek behind the scenes @amphibianrescue m.youtube.com/shorts/8EV44...
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YouTube video by Smithsonian's National Zoo
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
People LOVE their tungara frogs, its nature's lullaby in Latin America. amphibianrescue.org/the-enchanti...
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The Enchanting Tungara Frog Call: A Soundtrack to Latin American Nights - Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
From the humid lowlands of Mexico to the tropical forests of Colombia, one sound unites the nocturnal chorus of Latin America: the distinctive tungara frog call. These small amphibians, scientifically...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Check out our new research published in Diversity and Distributions modeling the high resolution seasonal changes in chytrid fungus and intensity in Panama - thanks to the many collaborators who shared data to make this work possible amphibianrescue.org/scientists-u...
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Scientists Use Climate Data to Map, Predict Amphibian Chytrid Disease - Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project
The chytrid fungus disease is responsible for global amphibian population declines, such as the endangered limosa harlequin frog shown above. (Brian Gratwicke/Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservati...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Happy Golden Frog Day from our awesome collaborators at JacanaJacana www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwxz... #AmphibianResilience
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RANA DORADA - JACANA JACANA FEAT ASI (Iniciativa de Supervivencia Atelopus)
YouTube video by Jacana Jacana
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Some of our recently released captive-raised Crowned tree frogs 1) sporting a radio transmitter! 2) with Nate who built artificial tree hole for them 3) Jennifer who cares for this captive collection and reared the juveniles for release.
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Meet some amazing #frogs at risk of extinction that we are breeding in captivity #biodiversityday #conservation 🧪
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Meet our turtle team at the Smithsonian conservation biology institute wapo.st/4mpX3ar
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Orlando spot checks lemur leaf frogs in pod #6
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Edna to find rare frogs in Panama 🐸🇵🇦❤️👏https://wildlife.org/can-edna-track-down-rare-frogs/
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Can eDNA track down rare frogs? - The Wildlife Society
New genetic tools might help scientists protect vanishing species
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Teratohyla spinosa a tiny little glass frog with a little call #panama #biodiversity #conservation #herpetology
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Nice little dink frog (Diasporus diastema) calling love the sound track of nature at night. #amphibianweek #frog #herpetology 🧪
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
One of the great privileges of this job is that we to run into some other cool creatures while doing field work #herpetology #Panama #helmetediguana
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Our intrepid team setting up mesocosms in Panama for some tadpole release trials lead by our collaborator Gonçalo Rosa from IMIB Biodiversity Research Institute.
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Brian Gratwicke @briangratwicke.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@amphibianrescue intern Nate Weisenbeck working on some artificial tree holes for our upcoming frog release trials.
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Little green frogs that are adorable!!! These guys are doing great in our breeding center, hopefully we’ll be releasing some soon to recover wild populations. Agalychnis lemur
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Brian Gratwicke @briangratwicke.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Something to brighten your day 😎
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Jorge Guerrel- the manager of our frog facility shows us a captive-bred crowned tree frog that we intend to release into the wild as part our first research efforts to supplement wild populations of this species.
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Limosa harlequin frog - Atelopus limosus. Some frogs do persist at some sites in very low numbers but this frog has largely disappeared from its former range. Our project maintains anassurance colony for reintroductions #conservation #zoos #panama #conservation #biology #herpetology #nature #panama
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Cute wild glass frog Hyalinobatrachium tatayoi from central Panama #addherper
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Here are some captive-bred Panamanian golden frogs in Panama in different developmental stages - put your sunglasses on 😎
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Help us build and annotate a library of frog calls on inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/blog/99871?f...
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1,000,000 Observations with Sounds on iNaturalist!
Last week, iNaturalist hit an exciting milestone—1,000,000 observations with sound! While this is a small fraction compared to the number of image-based observations, it’s a significant contribution ...
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Panamá Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project @amphibianrescue.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hello blue sky - we are working to conserve tropical amphibians. This Silverstoneia nubicola had disappeared in some places because of the Amphibian chytrid fungus but seems to be making a comeback! Follow us for #herpetology #batrachology #conservation #captivebreeding
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