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Golden Frog Festival

How and when to reintroduce frogs into their natural habitat?

August 19, 2020

Returning endangered frogs back to nature is not an easy task, particularly when their main threats are not under control. In this talk (Spanish), former STRI fellow and current director of the Summit Municipal Park, Dr. Angie Estrada, explains what is causing so many amphibian species around the world to be at risk for extinction and discusses the different approaches that scientists are exploring to reintroduce these animals back into nature safely.

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Amphibian rescue

Brian Gratwicke Building an amphibian ark and searching for a cure for the amphibian Chytrid Fungus

August 27, 2020

Join Brian as he gives us an update on the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project, its progress over the last 10 years, and its efforts to sustain this collection of living frogs and identify clear solutions to the amphibian crisis.  

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Good News!

Recovery of the Juan Diaz mangroves

October 22, 2021

Over the last 50 years, since 1972, Panama has lost almost 50% of its mangroves primarily due to urban expansion and the conversion of mangroves into agricultural land.

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Fortuitous discovery

Accidental tree wound reveals novel symbiotic behavior

January 07, 2022

A group of high school students describe how Azteca alfari ants respond to damage to their host plant 

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Home Science

First “Virtual Gigante” is a success

February 03, 2022

After being taught annually for three decades, the Smithsonian Introductory Field Life Sciences Course was suspended due to the pandemic, but it made a digital comeback in 2021.

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Eyes in the Sky

Drones help solve tropical tree mortality mysteries

February 09, 2022

Understanding when and where trees die in vast tropical forests is a challenging first step toward understanding carbon dynamics and climate change. Researchers explained variations in tree mortality over a five-year period by analyzing drone images of one of the most-studied tropical forests in the world, Barro Colorado Island in Panama.

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Isolated gem

A bilingual book makes the unique biodiversity of Panama’s Escudo de Veraguas Island available to indigenous communities

March 10, 2022

Botanist Alicia Ibañez hopes the book, which presents new data on the tiny island’s endemic flora and fauna in both Spanish and Ngäbere, will increase awareness of the importance of preserving its biodiversity.

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Frog fertility clinic

Artificial fertilization key to rescuing Panama’s endangered frogs from extinction

April 27, 2023

Animals in captivity may have trouble breeding, so to keep amphibian species from dying out, researchers are discovering new ways to help them reproduce.

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New tool

Scientists from the Global South innovate to track ongoing amphibian pandemic

May 24, 2023

The new diagnostic test showed comparable or even better results than the gold-standard assay recommended for the diagnosis of chytridiomycosis.

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Sneaky

Are bats spying on their prey in the canopy? 

October 22, 2019

Eavesdropping behavior in the canopy may answer questions about how acoustic interplay among animals has developed over millions of years in the forest

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