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Biologists are mounting a campaign to save amphibians around theworld using the power of social networks.

The GlobalAmphibian Blitz is a website to which amateur naturalists willbe able to upload images of beasties they have encountered on theirtravels along with the date and their location. Experts will thenbrowse and filter the submissions in a bid to identify rare speciesor amphibians found out of their normal habitat.

The initiative has been launched by the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley's AmphibiaWeb, which is a databaseof nearly 7,000 amphibians Cheap NBA 2K17 MT; Amphibian Ark; the SmithsonianConservation Biology Institute; the Amphibian Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission,which is part of the International Union for Conservation ofNature; the Centerfor Biological Diversity; and iNaturalist.org, a socialnetwork for naturalists.

It is hoped that crowdsourcing sightings of these species couldgive a greater indication of which species are under threat, but in a cost-effective way.

"The distributions of many amphibian species are so poorly knownthat every observation helps," said herpetologist Michelle Koo, aUC Berkeley research scientist who helps manage AmphibiaWeb."Museums can't be everywhere we need to be at once to get the datasets we need. Using social networks to partner with amateurs is apowerful new tool for scaling biodiversity data for science andconservation."

The ultimate aim is to take a census of "every one of theworld's surviving amphibian species" which, according toAmphibiaWeb, currently stands at 6,813.