MARCH 29,
2019
Dr. Jodi
Rowley explains why frogs are so vital for healthy ecosystems, how she is
working to conserve them and the positive impact she has already made to the
study of amphibians in Southeast Asia.
Dr. Jodi
Rowley has dedicated much of her career to illuminating what she calls 'the
black hole' in the world's knowledge of amphibian life in South-East Asia. Her
original impetus started following the release of the 'Global Amphibian
Assessment' in 2004 which was published by the IUCN Red List of Threatened
Species.
"The
report was the first comprehensive examination of how amphibians are doing on a
world level and highlighted the fact that they are in a lot of trouble. Today
we estimate that an incredible 42 percent of all known species of amphibians are threatened with extinction," she
says.
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