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The eastern United States, specifically the Appalachians, has an extraordinary diversity of salamanders. Paul Crump, from Houston...
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The El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC) was constructed based on the need identified by Project Golden Frog and the Amphibian...
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At the end of April 2008, the final release of the 2007 Houston Toad head start program was done. 70 adult Houston toads were released at...
On June 27th and 28th of 2008 the Conservation Department, in celebration of the Year of the Frog, held its first ever Amphibian Awareness...
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The Thicket of Diversity is a project by the Big Thicket Association that takes scientific researchers and teams them up with citizen...
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Earth Day weekend at the Houston Zoo was really hopping at the Amphibian Conservation Booth. Docents, volunteers and Conservation staff...
During the first week of April Bill Konstant Director of Conservation and Science joined with Edgardo Griffith Director of Panama's El...
On February 29th Leap Day the Houston Zoo welcomed 150 1st graders from Smith Elementary School in Pasadena ISD to help us celebrate...
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Peter Riger the Houston Zoo's Assistant Director of Conservation traveled to Sabah Borneo in March 2008 and accompanied Malaysian amphibian...
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Edgardo Griffith Director of EVACC and Paul Crump Reptile and Amphibian Keeper at the Houston were joined by Eric Baitchman from Zoo New...
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The disease known as chytridiomycosis results when a chytridiomycete fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis "chytrid" attacks keratin...
In February 2008 Houston Zoo's Paul Crump and Rachel Rommel joined staff from the Dallas Zoos Herpetology Department Bradley Lawrence and...
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These four frogs are among 19 amphibian species from Panama that are listed as Critically Endangered according to the IUCN Red List of...