Biocontrol Backfires

South American cane toads introduced into Australia to check sugarcane pests have become a menace

Ban on exports helps protect Indian bullfrog

The decline of the Indian bullfrog was reported recently in a New Scientist article. But, it may be premature to conclude that the species is doomed.

Crowd-sourcing, community participation to help in conserving rare toad

Bengaluru-based non-profit grantee to build citizen conservationist group for mapping, conserving Malabar Tree Toad in the Western Ghats

No pain

... is a big gain when it comes to medicine. Here, doctors would give anything for an effective, new painkiller

Habitat change may wipe out a newly discovered cascade frog species in Arunachal Pradesh

Changing course of streams due to anthropogenic reasons is bad news for Adi cascade frogs

New species of frog discovered in Arunachal

The frog was discovered in a single locality of the Namdapha Tiger Reserve, India's easternmost protected area

How we're saving the mountain chicken frog from one of the world's worst wildlife diseases

A nasty fungus killed 85% of Dominica's mountain chicken frogs in just 18 months – but the species lives on

Kalinga frog in Western Ghats shows physical differences from Eastern Ghats counterpart

Scientists claim the morphological phenotypic plasticity found in the Kalinga cricket frog is first such in India

Traffic noise can distract female frogs, lead them to select wrong mates: Study

Humans altering soundscapes may spell disaster for frogs’ mating success and population survival, a new study has warned

Watch out for these balloons

Sometimes resplendent, ungainly at other times, frogs are indicators of ecological health

Endangered

More than amphibians, it is the reptiles that are in danger of becoming extinct, claims a new study

Microplastics in 90% frogs studied in Bangladesh delta, can threaten biodiversity: Study

Microplastics abundance in frog samples from Bengal delta much higher than that observed in Europe, China in past studies

Limp-frogging

Increasing deformities in frogs attributed to pesticide exposure, which makes them susceptible to parasite infection

Killed in cold blood: Amphibians and reptiles are bearing the brunt of crop intensification

Loss of species due to rising farm productivity is inevitable, says research 

Perpetrating cruelty for the human palate

Two video films portray the extremes to which humans go in dealing with other life forms to satisfy their needs.

Global Eco Watch: Bumblebees bite leaves to make plants flower early

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology  

Fewer ribbits in Western Ghats? Erratic, deficit rainfall hits breeding cycles of frogs

Researchers say amphibians are not getting enough time to complete the breeding cycles, eggs drying out early

Calling for company

Among amphibians, vocal signals help distinguish between the different species and serve as tools for sexual selection. Recent studies …

Delhi has joined several Indian states in banning glue pads for rodent control. But what about poison?

Despite well-known dangers, anticoagulant rodenticides remain a popular, unregulated method to control rats in India

Indonesian frog species displays unique reproductive behaviour

Limnonectes larvaepartus is the only species of frog known to give birth to live tadpoles

I don't want to leapfrog

Commonly used herbicide is changing gender of US frogs

Amphibians exposed to insecticides during larval stages are not at greater risk of disease: study

Study conducted on Gray Tree frogs for 28 days

Red alert

The frog that leaped into today

A remarkable evolutionary find

Sinking fast