Chapter 17 Web Links
Invasive pythons in the Everglades:
- Python Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQYg6eU205M - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003612486/pets-gone-wild.html?emc=edit_th_20150406&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=34450251
Cane toads: An unnatural history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azQnClq--RU
The classic comedy/horror documentary about the introduction of cane toads (Rhinella marina) to Australia and their impact on agriculture and humans.
Controlling cane toads:
- With fences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrtjFbkxiQ - With catfood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xPdj3UBSo - With oophagy for control of cane toads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG2M23onKrg - With parasites
http://www.canetoadsinoz.com/newideasoncanetoadcontrol.html
Amphibian Crossing Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDbRCa3E78
Deformed amphibians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnFR7clk-sA
Diseases:
- Amphibian Medicine Tutorials: Chytridiomycosis and Ranavirus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQDrr5BEiNg - Bd-maps, The Global BD Mapping Project
http://www.bd-maps.net/ - Bd reaches Madagascar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wWwQB7CziQ - The Global Ranavirus Consortium
http://www.ranavirus.org/
Species-level conservation efforts:
- Tuatara recovery program
http://phys.org/news/2015-02-survey-reveals-tuatara-recovery-video.html - Attempt to breed the last known male and female of the Shanghai softshell turtle, Rafetus swinhoei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-SfoUXgHs&feature=youtu.be - Conservation of the gharial and false gharial
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150306-how-to-save-a-giant-crocodile - The plight of the Chinese giant salamander
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150316-amazing-giant-chinese-salamanders - Conservation of the Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d_TENp5qCE - Sea turtle hatcheries in Sri Lanka. Does this commercialization of sea turtles contribute to or harm conservation?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ldjqp - Conservation of hawksbill sea turtles
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/asiaandthepacific/solomonislands/explore/be-a-sea-turtle-hero.xml?src=e.nature&lu=2439023&autologin=true#
Climate Change:
- Evidence & Causes, National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society
http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/events/a-discussion-on-climate-change-evidence-and-causes/ - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Rediscovery and deExtinction:
- Robin Moore’s account of searching for endangered species of amphibians
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140911-quest-for-the-worlds-lost-frogs - Michael Archer deExtinction: How we’ll resurrect the gastric brooding frog and the Tasmanian tiger
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_archer_how_we_ll_resurrect_the_gastric_brooding_frog_the_tasmanian_tiger