Showing posts with label amphibians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amphibians. Show all posts

Malaysia: Alien fish invasion -- Melaka enforces ban on imported fish species

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JANE RAJ New Straits Times 8 Jun 17; MELAKA: The Melaka Fisheries Department today enforced a ban on imported genus and species of fish w...

Malaysia: Stop the killing and save our paddy frogs, says nature group

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BALVIN KAUR New Straits Times 4 Nov 26; GEORGE TOWN: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has called on the federal government to completely ban t...

Skin-eating Asian fungus imperils world's salamanders

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Will Dunham Reuters Yahoo News 31 Oct 14; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A skin-eating fungus that infiltrated Europe through the global wildlife...

Malaysia: Save our frogs.... and toads

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Suzanna Pillay New Straits Times 20 Oct 13; FOREST JEWELS: Environmental groups often champion the preservation of other species of fauna...

Alarm over vanishing frogs in the Caribbean

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Ben Fox and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez Associated Press Yahoo News 11 Apr 13; PATILLAS, Puerto Rico (AP) — A curtain of sound envelops the two r...

A third of frogs in danger of extinction

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Borneo Post 4 Apr 13; KUCHING: A third of frogs are in danger of going extinct, mostly from human-induced factors, said professor of herp...

Buddhist practice may be endangering frogs here

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Chytrid fungus detected on local frogs partly responsible for global decline of amphibian species Zara Zhuang Today Online 11 Mar 12; SI...

Deadly Fungus Detected in Southeast Asia's Amphibian Trade

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ScienceDaily 6 Mar 13; A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the National University of Singapore (NUS)...

Flying frog: new species discovered near Ho Chi Minh City

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Samantha-Jo Harris Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jan 13; Usually when the Australian Museum's Dr Jodi Rowley searches for new species of f...

Asian frogs becoming extinct before they can be identified, biologists warn

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Scientists fear amphibian destruction will be disastrous, with many species disappearing uncatalogued Fiona Harvey guardian.co.uk 12 Sep 1...

Live Bullfrog Trade Implicated in Amphibian-Killing Disease

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LiveScience.com Yahoo News 10 Aug 12; Bullfrogs, often shipped live between continents to be eaten, are spreading the deadly chytrid fung...

Indonesia and Malaysia Home to New Frog Species

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Antara Jakarta Globe 28 Jul 12; Scientists discovered two new frog species — and named them Leptobrachium ingeri and Leptobrachium kanowi...

New frog species found in central Vietnam

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thanhniennews 14 Jun 12; Australian and Vietnamese scientists have discovered another species of frog in central Vietnam, the Sai Gon Tie...

Malaysian Scientist Finds New Borneo Frog

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Jakarta Globe 18 May 12; This undated photo released by the World Wildlife Fund shows a Bornean flat-headed frog, which has the rare cha...

New Frog Species with 'Weird' Croak Identified in New York City

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University of Alabama Newswise 14 Mar 12; In the wilds of New York City — or as wild as you can get so close to skyscrapers — scientists ...

World's smallest frog discovered

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Richard Black BBC News 11 Jan 12; A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a...

World's smallest frogs discovered in New Guinea

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Pensoft Publishers EurekAlert 12 Dec 11; Paedophryne dekot (A) and (B), and P. verrucosa (C), and (D). Credit: Photos by Fred Kraus ...

Killer frog fungus 'spread by trade'

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Richard Black BBC News 8 Nov 11; The fungus killing frogs around the world comes in several forms, and has almost certainly been distribu...

Malaysia: Leap in demand for frog meat

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Abby Lu The Star 24 Oct 11; Frog farming is a risky business but the rewards are there for those who persevere. IT WAS the strangest pl...