Saving Salamanders with Citizen Science

Jonathan Kolby contacted me regarding a new salamander disease that is quickly spreading around the world and he's using iNat data to figure out where it's going. If you find a sick salamander in the wild, please take pictures and upload them to his project:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/saving-salamanders-with-citizen-science

The emerging infectious disease he is specifically worried about is caused by a species of chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or "Bsal") and the faster they can detect its spread into a new region, the greater hope there is to protect salamanders from disease, decline, and extinction.

Here's his video:
https://youtu.be/X6Pr8hzkiEE

I've given him links to our projects to peruse.

Update 2022-01-27:
https://baynature.org/2022/01/20/deadly-fungus-found-in-california-salamanders/?utm_source=Bay+Nature&utm_campaign=12278942c7-BN_NEWSLETTER_2022_01_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_092a5caaa2-12278942c7-199049067&mc_cid=12278942c7&mc_eid=6e8354d659

Posted on March 7, 2021 10:07 PM by truthseqr