If Amphibians Inhabit Your Landscapes, This Magazine Is for You
- A new open-access digital magazine from The Amphibian Survival Alliance
- Field reports, practical tools, news, and conservation resources written by and for practitioners
- Issue 1 features contributors from five continents, from Ecuador to Borneo to Papua New Guinea
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Open to contributions from the broader conservation community, including KBA practitioners and site managers
If you work in a Key Biodiversity Area (KBA), chances are you already know your amphibians. You've factored them into assessments, monitored their populations, watched them respond to the same pressures affecting everything else at your site. What you may not have is a place to share that work with practitioners facing the same challenges in a different landscape, on a different continent, often without the resources or networks you've built.
That's why The Amphibian Survival Alliance created AmphiBios.
A Shared Space for Practical Conservation
AmphiBios (amphibios.app) is a free, open-access digital magazine from The Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA), that is designed around a simple idea: conservation doesn't happen in a void. The best field insights, monitoring approaches, and hard-won lessons tend to live in project reports and institutional files, seen by funders and forgotten by everyone else. AmphiBios is where that knowledge travels further.
Inside, you'll find field reports from practitioners working across all regions, practical tools and methodologies that cross taxonomic boundaries, and honest accounts from conservationists writing about the work as they actually experience it. Survey frameworks adaptable to multi-taxa KBA assessments. Disease mitigation strategies relevant well beyond amphibians. Habitat management approaches tested in the field, not the abstract.
If it's useful to a practitioner, it belongs in AmphiBios.
Your Work Deserves a Wider Audience
Many KBA practitioners are generating exactly the kind of knowledge that other sites need. Monitoring data that reveals how amphibian populations track broader ecosystem health. Integrating the wisdom of indigenous communities. Community engagement strategies that work across species groups. Conservation approaches refined through years of fieldwork that never make it into a format other practitioners can find.
AmphiBios is built for those stories. Not just the successes, but the honest accounts of what didn't go as planned and what you learned from it. That kind of knowledge is rare and valuable, and it shouldn't stay locked in a single site's filing system.
Building Connections Across Landscapes
Through ASA's network of 90+ partner organizations across 36+ countries, and programs like the Future Leaders of Amphibian Conservation, AmphiBios connects practitioners across geographies and career stages. Early-career conservationists working in KBA landscapes can find mentorship, funding pathways, and a community invested in their growth. Experienced practitioners can reach the colleagues who need their insights most.
The amphibian conservation community is small enough to be personal and global enough to matter. AmphiBios makes it visible.
Issue 1
The first issue publishes at the end of March 2026, with contributions from Ecuador, Borneo, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar, South Africa, and Panama. Five continents. Practitioners writing about real work in real places. No paywalls. No jargon walls.
Contribute
AmphiBios welcomes feature articles up to 2,000 words, short communications up to 500, summaries of recently published research, and opportunities including funding calls and job postings. You don't need to be an amphibian specialist. If your work intersects with amphibian landscapes and you have something worth sharing, there's a place for it here.
Visit amphibios.app for submission guidelines, or to read Issue 1 when it launches later this month.
The best conservation knowledge is the kind that moves. AmphiBios is here to help it travel.
The Amphibian Survival Alliance is a global partnership strengthening and consolidating the impact of effective conservation actions to mitigate and prevent amphibian declines. ASA is a proud partner of the Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership. Learn more at amphibians.org.