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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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