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Science advances.
Action follows in the field.
We monitor populations, identify risks and test solutions. Here we share the findings, resources and fieldwork that turn evidence into effective conservation.
Field notes
What we do,
reported from the field.
Findings, resources and decisions shared across the SOSanfibios network. Filter the archive to explore our research, monitoring, conservation management and outreach.
Disease mitigation
A new method for controlling chytridiomycosis.
A controlled field intervention eradicated Bd from breeding sites used by the Betic midwife toad.
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Outreach
An ebook for understanding and prevention.
This open-access guide explains emerging diseases, the threats they pose and good practice for anyone who encounters or keeps amphibians.
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Research
Bsal distribution and risk in Spain.
Screening almost 1,500 animals has helped define the risk to Iberian salamanders and newts.
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Monitoring
Sharp amphibian declines in Picos de Europa.
Fourteen years of monitoring show that populations respond very differently to Ranavirus and Bd.
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Monitoring
Rapid spread of Bd in south-eastern Spain.
A survey spanning the Betic midwife toad’s entire range reveals how widely the fungus has spread.
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Conservation management
A European action plan for Bsal.
A shared roadmap sets out what to do before, during and after the pathogen is introduced.
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Research
Pathogens in the Pyrenean brook newt.
A coordinated survey on both sides of the Pyrenees examines the health of Calotriton asper populations.
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Outreach
A fact sheet on chytrid fungi.
Scientific evidence presented clearly to support prevention and conservation management in Catalonia.
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Biosecurity
Pathogen screening at pet fairs.
Health screening in the animal trade helps close one route by which pathogens move between regions.
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Monitoring
Disease surveillance across the Cantabrian region.
Hundreds of populations, from Galicia to the Basque Country, form a collaborative pathogen-surveillance network.
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Disease mitigation
Eradicating Bd from Mallorca’s mountain streams.
An intensive response combined access restrictions, larval treatment and disinfection of affected water bodies.
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Disease mitigation
Disinfecting breeding sites in Andalusia.
Fourteen water bodies affected by chytridiomycosis form part of a recovery programme for the Betic midwife toad.
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Monitoring
Long-term population monitoring in Picos de Europa.
A programme established in 2006 records abundance, climate, pathogens and ecosystem change at twenty-four sites.
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Reintroduction
Reintroducing the common midwife toad in Guadarrama.
Conservation breeding and releases are maintaining Alytes obstetricans in the park after a devastating outbreak.
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Conservation breeding
Conservation breeding to restore Guadarrama’s midwife toads.
An assurance population supports reintroduction and research following a chytridiomycosis outbreak.
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15 stories spanning monitoring, site disinfection, trade controls, conservation breeding and reintroduction.
Back to the start of the archiveIn the field
Research matters
when it changes what happens next.
Each intervention connects data, people and decisions. There is no single response: we observe, prevent, intervene and support recovery.
01 · Mitigate
Reduce disease pressure.
We use carefully controlled measures where inaction could have irreversible consequences.
02 · Monitor
Detect change before it is too late.
Long-term data help distinguish natural fluctuation from genuine decline.
03 · Recover
Return populations to safe habitats.
Conservation breeding, monitoring and reintroduction form a single recovery strategy.
04 · Prevent
Prevent new introductions.
Biosecurity in the field, captivity and trade is our most effective intervention.
You are part of the response
An early report
can change the outcome.
If you find dead amphibians, unusual behaviour or anything else of concern, please tell us.