Over the last several decades, amphibians – including frogs, toads, salamanders and newts – have experienced the highest rate of species decline among vertebrate animals. These losses have occurred due to impacts such as wetland loss, disease, pollutants, invasive species and climate change.

Community volunteers help collect scientific data by observing amphibians in local conservation wetland areas. Each year our Amphibian Monitoring volunteers log hundreds of observations of amphibians across western Washington in the iNaturalist online collection of biodiversity observations. iNaturalist is a global community of people who assist conservation efforts by recording observations of organisms and share them with each other to gain a better understanding of the natural world.

 

What are we looking for?

We’re monitoring for eight different species of frogs, toads and salamanders:

 

 

 

Local Communities Contributing to Global Conservation

Each year since 2012, approximately 75 volunteers have monitored 17 sites for evidence of breeding amphibians. Volunteers log data in the Amphibians of Washington project on iNaturalist, where project curators verify the observations. These observations help us understand where our local amphibians are – and aren’t – breeding across the region.

 

 

Hope for Native Amphibians

 

Take a look at what our community scientists accomplished!

2023 Report 2022 Report 2021 Report 2020 Report

 

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