Current rates of biodiversity loss pose an unprecedented challenge to the conservation
community, particularly with amphibians and freshwater fish as the most threatened …

Many of the world's vertebrates have experienced large population and geographic range
declines due to anthropogenic threats that put them at risk of extinction. The largest …

Emerging infectious diseases are on the rise in many different taxa, including, among others,
the amphibian batrachochytrids, the snake fungal disease and the Severe Acute Respiratory …

Overexploitation, habitat destruction, human-driven climate change and disease spread are
resulting in the extinction of innumerable species, with amphibians being hit harder than …

The link between unsustainable harvest of species for the wildlife trade and extinction is
clear in some cases, but little is known about the number of species across taxonomic …

Effective conservation of threatened biota relies on accurate assessments and scientific
guidance. As an unfortunate example, Chinese giant salamanders (Andrias, CGS) remain …

Inaccurate taxonomic assessment of threatened populations can hinder conservation
prioritization and management, with human‐mediated population movements obscuring …

Being the largest extant amphibian in the world, the IUCN Critically Endangered Chinese
giant salamander Andrias davidianus is a charismatic species with great international public …

Biodiversity in China coexists alongside large ethnically diverse rural human populations
within linked 'biocultural'social–ecological systems. Cumulative and changing local …

The commercial trade in frogs and their body parts is global, dynamic and occurs in
extremely large volumes (in the thousands of tonnes/yr or billions of frogs/yr). The European …