It was published in the Journal of Virology. It’s gotten no notice whatsoever. Not even from the scholars documenting the contributions of animal substances and compounds to human medicine. It’s pretty, pretty sad. At any rate, I’ve been involved from the start. In 2005, we held a international meeting in Washington and developed the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan, dealing with all dimensions from pollution to habitat destruction and degradation to disease, et cetera. The only part of the plan that has really been implemented is the sort of salvage operation called the Amphibian Ark in which zoos can play an extremely large role. Right now there are about 100 species in these salvage operations of the Amphibian ArK, which essentially take the creatures in before they’re wiped out in the wild and try to maintain them in ongoing breeding populations.
