Amphibian Rescue
When amphibians began disappearing around the world, conservation had to change. The podcast begins by revisiting the discovery of the amphibian extinction crisis and the creation of Amphibian Ark in 2006. From there, we share real-world stories of species rescue, conservation breeding, and reintroduction efforts around the globe. 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 With original music by Pablo Bolaños | Biota Specimens (https://biota-specimens.com) Reviewed and fact-checked by the Amphibian Ark team of experts: Luis Carrillo, Devin Edmonds, Renata Ibelli Vaz, Jonathan Wilcken, Cybele Lisboa, Elizabeth Townsend, María José Chang, Beatriz Velásquez Made possible by the generous support of our donors around the world. 🎧 Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 🌍 Learn more: www.AmphibianArk.org 💚 Support Amphibian Ark’s work: www.AmphibianArk.org/support-us/ Together, we can continue rescuing amphibians in crisis.
Episodes
E04 – How they brought the Corroboree frogs back from the brink
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.
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 ti...
E03 – What is conservation breeding?
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.
Drawing on Bob’s experience, the episode traces early work on the Puerto Rican toad (sapo concho), then goes o...
E02 - Building Amphibian Ark: a crisis-response organization for threatened amphibians
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 th...
E01: Where have all the frogs gone?
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.
Joe recounts how scientists worldwide initially dismissed disappearances as bad years until patterns conver...
Around the world, amphibians are disappearing. But when conservation in the wild isn’t enough, what options do we have?
Amphibian Rescue is the official podcast of Amphibian Ark, sharing the stories of how a global amphibian crisis reshaped conservation—and how science, collaboration, and ex situ programs are already giving amphibian species a second chance at a future back in the wild.
Launching with a three-part histor...
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