The Global Amphibian Conservation Magazine

Issue 3

Issue 3 — September 2026

Amphibian Futures, Now

Published September 8, 2026

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From the Editor

The Frogs Did Not Read the Land-Use Plan

Candace M. Hansen

Featured

Madagascar’s Amphibian Oasis Under Siege: The Fight for Betampona

Gonçalo M. Rosa, Silver N. Tsy Lavina, Rodino F. Harison, Jean Noël, Honoré Lava, Georges Rendrirendry, Jean H. Velo, Angelica Crottini, Franco Andreone, Karen Freeman

Small Ambassador: How a Thumb-Sized Frog Is Protecting 27,000 Hectares of Patagonia

Federico Kacoliris, Melina Velasco, Rodrigo Calvo, Igor Berkunsky, Sofia Quiroga, Hernán Povedano

Beating the Winter Blues (and Fungus Too): in situ Treatment of Chytridiomycosis Increases Overwinter Survival of Reintroduced Northern Leopard Frogs in British Columbia

Rebecca Stanton, Jasmine Louste-Fillion

When the River Turns to Mud: Illegal Gold Mining and the Fate of Stream Frogs in Borneo

Khairuddin Iqbal Supartha

The Secret Kingdom of Bangladesh's Frogs and Toads: Why Wetland Ecosystems Matter More Than Ever

Naeem Ahmod

Return of the Frog: Conservation Breeding Gives the Southern Stuttering Frog a Way Home

Aimee Silla, Amber Harrison, Jarrad Prangell, Matthew Radnidge

Articles

Resilience in a Scenario of Environmental Injustice: The Paradox of the Golden-Eyed Coffee Frog (Agalychnis annae)

Víctor J. Acosta-Chaves

Neotropical

The Frog and Snake Festival of the Upper Pastaza River Basin, Ecuador

Paulet A. Benavides-Lascano, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Alexander G. Bentley, Patricio Vinueza-Mecías

Neotropical

Community Science and Environmental Education for the Conservation of Telmatobius macrostomus in the Central Andes of Peru

Luis Castillo Roque, Milagros Gertrudes Rojas Lock, Katherin Celica Taramona Zevallos, Deysi Tronet Ricapa Morales, Luis Antonio Echevarria Macassi

Neotropical

ANFIBIA: Art Exhibition

Daniela Renata Lazcano Silva, Luis Leonardo Calisaya Castillo, Elvira Zabala Brañez, Brandon Ricardo Quisbert Yujra

Neotropical

Swamp Lore and Conservation: Reflections on Ethnozoology and Anurans

Iago Ferraz

Global

Frogs: The Invisible Victims of Nepal's Mid-Hills

Neha Joshi

Indomalayan

From Classrooms to Misty Mountains: Teaching and Tracking Amphibians in Nepal

Bivek Gautam, Bishal Prasad Neupane, Santosh Bhattarai

Indomalayan

Restoring a Lost Breeding Site: Community-Led Wetland Restoration for the Himalayan Salamander in Nepal

Bivek Gautam, Bishal Prasad Neupane, Santosh Bhattarai

Indomalayan

From Field Boots to Classroom Desks: What Middle Schoolers Taught Me About Amphibian Conservation

Julia L. Gray

Nearctic

Cycling for Save The Frogs: A Youth-Led Conservation Initiative in Bangladesh

Sajib Biswas, Susil Malakar, Niloy Chandra Mandal

Indomalayan

Save The Frogs Day 2026 in Pakistan: A Nationwide Celebration of Amphibian Conservation

Muzna Kashaf, Unza Waqar, Ahmed Junaid, Syed Arif Hussain, Nayer Abbas, Dr. Muhammad Rais

Indomalayan

Overlooked Eavesdroppers: Current Research and Future Directions on Amphibian-Feeding Hematophagous Insects in Taiwan

Jh-Yu You

Indomalayan

Rainforests, Coffee, and a Drying Climate: Do Frogs Like Coffee as Much as We Do?

Vijay Karthick

Indomalayan

Understanding the Remarkable Reproductive Ecology of African Grey Foam-Nest Treefrogs

Phillip Byrne, Aimee Silla

Afrotropical

Spotlight on Threatened Rain Frogs in South Africa

Louis Du Preez, Tiaan Botha

Afrotropical

Beyond the Test Tube: How the Amphibian Microbiome is Shaping Real-World Conservation

Randall R. Jiménez, Carly Muletz-Wolz, Brian Gratwicke

Global

Pathogen Pulse: Meeting of Minds at GARD26

Dr. Molly Bletz

Global

Securing a Future for the Northern Corroboree Frog

Michael McFadden, David Hunter

Australasian

From plans to ponds: building a future for the Danube Dragon

Bálint Halpern, Lars Briggs, Dan Cogălniceanu, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović, Tom Kirschey, Ute Nüsken, Katja Poboljšaj, Dennis Rödder, Loïc van Doorn, Judit Vörös, Mathieu Denoël

Palearctic

Keep Them Safe – Including Citizens in Practical Conservation Work

Johannes Penner, Heiko Werning, Julia Bindl, Tina Nagorzanski, Patrick Binoni, Vanessa Dubberke, Björn Encke

Global

Building International Toad Day from Nothing

Avi Zobel

Global

From the journals

Trait-mediated responses of frog communities to urbanisation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot, the Western Ghats of India

Mudke, M., & Aravind, N. A.

Urban Ecosystems

Persuading the public to care about an elusive, “ugly” amphibian: Community participation and education in conservation of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus a. alleganiensis)

Davidson, E. M., & Gunderson, R.

Journal of Herpetology

Promise and pitfalls: Variable performance of AI-assisted passive acoustic monitoring of birds and frogs using BirdNET and VicFrogNET

Bell, K., Edwards, B., Phan, T. L., & Malerba, M. E.

Ecological Informatics

Assessing the sanitary and demographic status of the critically endangered Speleomantes ambrosii

Rosa, G., Dondero, L., Cannata, M., Grasselli, E., Sebastiano, S., & Costa, A.

Journal for Nature Conservation

Environmental watering elevates chytrid infection probability in frogs

Driscoll, D. A., Muhammad, J. J., & Stanic, L.

Ecosphere

Playing it safe at early life stages: Balancing energy allocations to maximize fitness under seasonal pathogen dynamics

Colón-Piñeiro, Z., Martin, N. W., Klee, T. J., Buchanan, B. L., St. Mary, C. M., Acevedo, M. A., Burrowes, P. A., & Longo, A. V.

Journal of Animal Ecology

Comparative evaluation of funnel, box, and camera traps for reptile and amphibian inventory

DeVos, T. B., Koon, A. E., Damm, E. E., Hilt, M. E., Dunlop, D. M., NeSmith, C. C., & Price, F. D.

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Ambystoma quetzalcoatli sp. nov., a new species of fossil axolotl (Caudata: Ambystomatidae) from the Pliocene of Santa María Amajac, Hidalgo, Mexico

Herrera-Flores, J. A., & Velasco-de León, M. P.

Palaeontologia Electronica

Temperature constrains diet-induced plasticity in the life-history of an aquatic vertebrate

Bento, S., Deeks, E., Martelo, J., Magalhães, M. F., Segurado, P., Nascimento, S., Sousa, P. P., Caramelo, J., Vilas Boas, J., Laurila, A., Svanbäck, R., Carreira, V. D., Kratina, P., Rebelo, R., & Carreira, B. M.

Scientific Reports

Beyond the Paddy Fields: Riparian Reed Beds as Essential Natural Habitat for the Critically Endangered Suweon Treefrog, Dryophytes suweonensis

Koo, K. S., Park, E. J., Jin, S. N., & Yun, K. S.

Ecology and Evolution

Anuran responses to land cover in a historically mined anthropogenic landscape

Buckardt, E. M., George, A. D., & Rega-Brodsky, C. C.

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Land use and climate shape amphibian multidimensional diversity and conservation in a coffee agroforestry landscape, Western Ghats

Karthick, V., Dass, S., Sadekar, V., Naniwadekar, R., & Osuri, A. M.

Biological Conservation

Amphibians After Disease-Induced Declines: Genetic Insights Into Population Recoveries

Basanta, M. D., Byrne, A. Q., Rosenblum, E. B., Richards-Zawacki, C. L., & Voyles, J.

Molecular Ecology

Genome-Wide Analysis of an Endangered Axolotl Endemic to Mexico Reveals Genomic Variation Associated with Body Condition, Environment, and Infection by a Pathogenic Fungus

Soto-Cortés, E., Basanta, M. D., Ávila-Akerberg, V., Castellanos-Morales, G., Eguiarte, L. E., Gasca-Pineda, J., González Martínez, T. M., & Rebollar, E. A.

Genome Biology and Evolution

Issue 3 — September 2026

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