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🦎🐍Today we celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay. Read what our guest blogger, Sebastian Chekunov, and his team are doing to help stop illegal wildlife trade ❌ @InvasionEcology Adam Toomes Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology Uni of Adelaide 🔗 blogs.adelaide.edu.au/environment/20…

Base camp for the week

Recent field experiments focused on a tiny, charismatic frog in southeastern Brazil are beginning to shed light on a disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world. Watch our new short film from Katie Garrett here: bit.ly/3QBP5gi

Join us at Belair NP on the 26th May for our #2 nature walk of the year! Our knowledgeable committee (and members!) can help identify any native fauna and flora that we might stumble across! 🦋🌿🍄 Free for members, $5 for non members, register here: events.humanitix.com/belair-np-natu…

The urban frog life of Adelaide has been enjoying the rains from last night. A short walk last night saw 33 individuals of 4 species!! Including this cute little peron’s tree frog (Litoria peronii) using a retaining wall as its home. #wildOz

New FrogID research! Our team’s latest study analysed over 20,000 #FrogID recordings, providing a go-to guide to the calls of co-occurring whistling frogs in southeastern Australia. Thank you for your submissions! Read more: australian.museum/blog/amri-news…

A chameleon, a viper and a poisonous toad are just a few animals that may sneak into Australia unless we stay vigilant, research finds Monash University theconversation.com/alien-invasion…

(1/13) 🧪 Exciting news! My 3rd PhD paper is hot out of the science oven! 🌟📚🌍We've developed a groundbreaking #tool for #forecasting potential invaders to prevent future #biologicalInvasions! 👽 READ ON School of Biological Sciences, Monash ChappleLab #InvasiveAlienSpecies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

THIS PAPER WAS A PRODUCT OF THE COMBINED BRILLIANCE OF ChappleLab @BLeroyEcology Franck Courchamp @ZurellLab Adam Toomes Sebastian Chekunov Matthias Grenié ⋅ @[email protected] Jules Farquhar John Measey D. Van Winkel, L. Maria, A.C. Diesmos, M. L. D. Diesmos

If you're ever in Sarawak, I can definitely recommend a visit to Kubah at night. Saw an amazing selection of #frogs and invertebrates, plus a few snakes and lizards too

We are in Kuching, Borneo for the 10th World Congress of Herpetology this week! This Magnificent Friend is a Long-nosed Horned Frog or Malayan Horned Frog (Pelobatrachus nasutus) and we met them at Kubah National Park on our first day in Borneo! 🐸

New special issue exploring neglected taxa in the wildlife trade now out! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15231739/2…

First chapter of my PhD is out now! ⬇️

For an easier read, here's a wonderful article in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about our research into the international trade of Australian herps 🐍🦎 @InvasionEcology Adam Toomes Thomas Prowse Oliver Stringham theconversation.com/we-found-one-i…

Great to see the wildlife trade special issue in Conservation Biology is out now: bit.ly/4ekUQbD Looking forward to reading about some of the lesser studied taxa in wildlife trade, and glad that our work led by Sebastian Chekunov is included! bit.ly/4cYxGGW

Thanks to ABC Australia & Erin Parke for highlighting the global trade of 🇦🇺 endemic reptiles & amphibians! bit.ly/3Ts22KL We found 33 species never recorded before in overseas markets - work led by Sebastian Chekunov with Oliver Stringham Thomas Prowse & @InvasionEcology

Australian reptiles worth tens of thousands being smuggled in socks and chocolate boxes 9news.com.au/national/anima…

New Paper! We highlighted a loophole in Chinese wildlife regulations. For many species, only wild specimens are regulated for trade, providing opportunities for wildlife laundering. Hopefully, regulatory changes will happen soon to rectify this loophole. cell.com/current-biolog…