A major threat to amphibians over the last 30 years has been the Chytrid fungus, which has been spread by human contamination, but has been aided in entering ne

A major threat to amphibians over the last 30 years has been the Chytrid fungus, which has been spread by human contamination, but has been aided in entering new regions by changing climates. The upshot of this, as it relates to the submitted article, is there is a comprehensive, cross-functional and multi-method conservation action plan in place for amphibians, that has been operating now for some time, in response to threats like Chytrid. A new release of the plan is expected this year: https://www.iucn-amphibians.org/resources/acap/ https://www.iucn-amphibians.org/resources/acap/ Whilst the plan involves a lot of preservation of amphibians in their native habitats, a particularly interesting part of it is the “Amphibian Ark”, https://www.amphibianark.org/about-us/ https://www.amphibianark.org/about-us/. Pretty much as it sounds, they’re taking live specimens of the most threatened species out of at-risk sites and trying to establish captive breeding populations. During the most aggressive periods of Chytrid spread, there’s been stories of expeditions reaching sites and securing specimens days before the disease tore through, most notably as told by a BBC crew filming golden frogs for an Attenborough documentary: https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/the-panamanian-golden-frog-declared-extinct-by-bbc-natural-history-crew/ https://news.mongabay.com/2008/02/the-panamanian-golden-frog...