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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: How a multi-nation effort has protected North American amphibians from a deadly disease outbreak
Description: Scientists described Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) over 10 years ago, a pathogen that causes the deadly disease chytridiomycosis which is currently devastating salamanders and frogs around the world, contributing to a global amphibian decline. But thanks to a successful cross border (U.S., Mexico & Canada) effort to keep it out, it has yet to arrive in North America: the Bsal Task Force is made up of scientists from each nation using education, outreach, science and policy to keep the disease from reaching the continent. Founding task force co-chair Deanna Olson of the U.S. Forest Service joins...