Battling Chytrid: A Conservationist’s Journey to Protect Frog Populations from a Ravaging Panzootic

"Long-term, conservation needs to change; we need to future-proof our efforts. Providing frogs with heritable resistance to disease may be the way forward."

Photo: Anthony Waddle, researcher at the Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Credit: Yorick Lambreghts/Macquarie University

Frog populations worldwide are declining due to a devastating winter panzootic caused by the chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis). The disease, known as chytridiomycosis, has caused the death of amphibians massively,…