Save the frogs

A “metaphorical Noah’s Ark” is how Claude Gascon describes the action plan drafted last month at an Amphibian Conservation Summit in Washington, D.C. “If implemented, it would hopefully reverse the trend in amphibian extinctions,” says Gascon, an officer of the D.C.–based Conservation International and chairman of the World Conservation Union’s Global Amphibian Specialist Group.

GOING, GOING. Because many amphibian species, such as this Mexican black-eyed leaf frog, are in imminent danger of extinction, researchers drafted a search-and-rescue plan for them.