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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Mongabay Explores the Great Salamander Pandemic, Part 3: On the Hunt
Description: Reporter Benji Jones and wildlife disease ecologist with U.S. Geological Survey, Daniel Grear, join this special edition of Mongabay's podcast to discuss the hunt for Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in North America, which Benji has described as "searching for a needle in a haystack except the needle is invisible and the hay stretches for thousands of miles." Host Mike DiGirolamo talks with Jones and Grear about the search, the difficulty in finding it, and what we can expect if the disease ever makes its way to U.S. shores. This third bonus episode of the...