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Newsletter
Number 16 September 2011

In this issue...
AArk newsletter has a new look! ..............1 Leaping Ahead of Extinction: A celebration of good news for amphibians in 2012 .......1 The much anticipated birth of the Amphibian Survival Alliance .....................2 Evolution of an amphibian species conservation program:the AArk’s vision ..2 Amphibian Ark 2012 calendars are now on sale! ..........................................................4 Amphibian Ark merchandise available!.....4 Sustaining donors: seed grant donors ......5 Sunset Frog breeding event at Perth Zoo 5 Malaysia husbandry training 2011 ............6 Upcoming husbandry and conservation training course in the Caribbean...............6 Updates fromAArk Seed Grant recipients7 Integrating the Caribbean into the Southeast Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation ................................9 A summary of ex situ programs for threatened amphibian species................10 Featured Frog MatchMaker projects ......11 El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center - five years of an ex situ conservation project in Central Panama......................12 The first annual frogday.org grant...........13 An ex situ conservation and research project for Pickersgill’s Reed Frog ..........14 Haiti’s disappearing frogs .......................15 Activities in Mesoamerica .......................17 An update from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums, June-August 2011 ..............18 Amphibian Ark donors, January-August 2011........................................................20

AArk newsletter has a new look!
Welcome to the 16th edition of the AArk newsletter, which now has a new and improved format. We’ve moved to more of a ® magazine style format, which we hope you’ll enjoy, and we are now also delivering the newsletter as a single pdf file, rather than a series of separate online articles. In an effort to keep the size of thenewsletter file to a minimum, the file that will email to you will include medium quality images. If you’d like to download a high resolution version of the newsletter, we will have these available on the Newsletter page on our web site, and a link to the larger file will be included on the front page of the newsletter. We will continue to deliver our newsletter in English and Spanish editions, andwe thank our volunteer translators for their ongoing support in this area. We hope that this new style of newsletter will suit the majority of our members, and we’d love to hear your thoughts on it – please feel free to send your comments to newsletter@amphibianark.org The AArk team

Leaping Ahead of Extinction: A celebration of good news for amphibians in 2012
To coincide with Leap Day(February 29th) 2012, Amphibian Ark is launching a new international event, Leaping Ahead of Extinction: A celebration of good news for amphibians in 2012. The event will focus on promoting existing ex situ programs for threatened amphibian species, as well as the institutions that manage these programs, by encouraging people to visit their closest zoo or public facility that is involved with theprograms, on or around Leap Day 2012. You get to see what your local amphibian conservation organization is doing, and they get a chance to further promote the great work they are involved in. Facilities with ex situ conservation programs for threatened amphibians are included in our ex situ database, and we are hoping that many of these institutions will be involved in the promotion. This is a chance foryou to show your support for your local organizations that are helping to rescue threatened species. We’re about to launch an exciting range of T-shirts available for sale (see separate article in this newsletter) – why not buy one to wear when you visit your local amphibian organization on Leap Day? If you would like your institution to be featured in this promotion, contact the AArk. More...