Oct
24

Where Learning Happens: Highlights from the 2010 Annual Report

Losses into gains: The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project has helped to rescue amphibians on the brink of extinction. As a disease that has devastated dozens of frog species continues to spread, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the National Zoo’s Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute have formed a coalition to gather needed scientific resources and airlift frogs to a new amphibian conservation facility in Panama. The project, which established secure populations of all surviving harlequin frog species, and successfully bred three kinds of endangered frogs in captivity, is making progreass on a cure for the disease.

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Posted: 24 October 2011
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.