Tadpole Doctor

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About Tadpole Doctor

- World wide many groups of frogs are in danger of extinction

- A key threat to frogs is the spread of infectious disease

- One newly identified disease infects tadpoles

- This disease has been detected in the UK

- As a community, we can track this disease and help plan conservation strategies

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Disease in your Tadpoles?

Fill in our simple survey with your observations.

Our survey focuses on tadpoles, however, if you are observing signs of ill-health in adult amphibians, please go to www.gardenwildlifehealth.org

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Updated December 2022

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Our Host

The Department of Biology at the Univeristy of Oxford

Press

- Research Article - Expanded host and geographic range of tadpole associations with the Severe Perkinsea Infection group.
- Guardian - Disease causing mass deaths of frogs reaches Britain
- BBC Radio 4: Inside Science - Radio interview between Tom Richards and Gaia Vince.
- The Canary - Tadpoles among the first in line to test the UK’s G7 biodiversity promise

Exeternal Links

Royal Society: Friends and foes in our ponds.

Our Research Website

Email

contact@tadpole-doctor.co.uk