FrogLog
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mphibian conservation is about more than just avoiding extinction or talking about what is going wrong—it is about motivating others. It is about shining the spotlight on projects that are working and thereby providing a model to copy and implement elsewhere. This edition of FrogLog is about these amphibian conservation success stories. These stories range from protecting, restoring or creating habitats to captive breeding and releases, as well as the implementation of conservation education and awareness programs. This edition of FrogLog is also about the power of collaboration. Our ability to achieve these conservation successes depends on our willingness to collaborate with others. The issues facing amphibians are dynamic and interrelated. It is very rare that you have a single organization or individual with the resources and the ability to single-handedly and effectively tackle the combination of these issues. Organizations with a vested interest in conservation are constantly understaffed and underfunded. The ability to pool these resources together through collaborative efforts becomes an extremely powerful and effective conservation tool. Each organization or individual that comes together on a project brings their own unique set of diverse skills and strengths to the table that when combined, can achieve great things. George Bernard Shaw wrote, “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” As the new IUCN quadrennium gets underway, it is my pleasure and honour to extend a warm welcome to the over 400 members of the Amphibian Specialist Group. Each of you brings to the group a diverse range of skills, approaches and backgrounds, which makes the ASG a truly global authority on amphibian research and conservation. Over the course of the next four years we look forward to working together with all of you to develop even more amphibian conservation success stories. And we encourage you to share your success stories with us—we want to hear from you and we want to help share your stories with others.
ASG Secretariat Claude Gascon ASG Co-Chair
Phillip J. Bishop ASG Co-Chair
Robin D. Moore ASG Program Officer
Candace M. Hansen ASG Program Officer
James P. Lewis ASG Program Officer
Ariadne Angulo Amphibian RLA Coordinator
Jennifer Luedtke Amphibian RLA Deputy Coordinator
FrogLog Editorial Board Editor-in-chief
Candace M. Hansen Editors
Craig Hassapakis James P. Lewis
Candace M. Hansen ASG Program Officer Editorial Office Global Wildlife Conservation PO Box 129, Austin, TX 78767, USA froglog@amphibians.org
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