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Compelling research reveals fatal spread of Ranavirus will increase if carbon emissions are not reduced Climate change has already increased the spread and severity of a fatal disease caused by Ranavirus that infects common frogs (Rana temporaria) in the UK, according to research led by ZSL’s Institute of Zoology, UCL and Queen Mary University of…

Wildlife conservation charity urges private amphibian traders to prevent Bsal fungus from infecting wild populations The UK’s wild newt populations seem to be free from a flesh-eating lethal fungus known to be prevalent in privately-owned amphibians across Western Europe, a nationwide investigation has found. Scientists from international conservation charity ZSL and its research partners, are now urging private amphibian…