The Amphibian Ark was created in 2007 to carry out the ex situ components of the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group’s Amphibian Conservation Action Plan (ACAP). An Executive Committee comprised of representatives of the three founding partners oversees the work of AArk. A Steering Committee of representatives of major global stakeholder groups provides additional guidance.
Amphibian Ark works with key coordinating bodies in global amphibian conservation – the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG) and the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA) – to achieve a shared vision: Amphibians thriving in nature.
Steering Committee
- African Association of Zoos and Aquaria (PAAZAB): To be confirmed
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ALPZA): Andrea Caiozzi
- Asociación Mesoamericana de Zoológicos y Acuarios (AMACZOOA): Yolanda Matamoros
- Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA): Shelly Grow
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI): Dr. David Galbraith
- Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA): Greg Tarry
- Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens (CAZG): Qiao Yilun
- European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA): Dr. Gerardo Garcia
- Euro-Asian Regional Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EARAZA): Evgeny Ryboltovsky
- International Aquarium Forum (IAF): Paul Van den Sande
- Museums: Dr. Andrew Gray
- International Species Information System (ISIS): Nate Flesness
- Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA): Dr. Kaszushi Kuwabara
- Private sector Australia: Gerry Marantelli
- Private sector Europe: Peter Janzen
- Private sector USA: Ron Skylstad
- South Asian Zoo Association for Regional Cooperation (SAZARC): Sally Walker
- South East Asian Zoos Association (SEAZA): Dr. Mirza D. Kusrini
- Sociedade de Zoológicos do Brasil (SZB): Hans Furrer
- Zoo and Aquarium Association (Australasia): Susan Hunt
- Other: Dr. David M. Green
AArk Activities
Amphibian Ark’s mission is to ensure the global survival of amphibians, focusing on those that cannot currently be safeguarded in nature. To help achieve our mission, we carry out a number of varied activities:
- Raising awareness about the global amphibian crisis. We can all play a part in helping to save amphibians, via the internet, newsletters and global campaigns.
- Developing new partnerships, and helping to strengthen exiting ones, between amphibian conservation organizations, especially those involved in amphibian conservation programs in zoos, aquariums and private facilities and the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA).
- Developing and running amphibian husbandry and conservation training courses in regions and countries where additional expertise is required. This includes the development of husbandry manuals and guidelines.
- Facilitating conservation needs assessment workshops, where regional amphibian experts help to determine and prioritize the conservation needs for species in their regions, and making the results of these workshops available to the wider amphibian conservation community.
- Promoting the successes that our partners are achieving with their amphibian conservation programs.
- Initiating Advisory Committees to assisting our partners with population management, biobanking, husbandry/biosecurity and other technical areas.
- Raising funds to help support much-needed conservation programs, by applying for grants and by promoting contributions from the corporate sector and the general public.
- Providing conservation grants to fund small start-up projects that are in need of seed money in order to build successful long-term programs that attract larger funding.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about the AArk you can contact Amphibian Ark staff:
Anne Baker AnneBaker (at) AmphibianArk.org Executive Director
Luis Carrillo Luis (at) AmphibianArk.org Training Officer
Kevin Johnson KevinJ (at) AmphibianArk.org Communications Officer
Rachel Rommel Rachel (at) AmphibianArk.org Community Education Officer
Elizabeth Townsend Elizabeth (at) cpsg.org Administrative Assistant
Danny Beckwith Danny (at) AmphibianArk.org Creative Officer
Amphibian Ark
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