Indian herpetologists bring their life’s work to Harvard and the MCZ

A recent paper in Nature, Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats, was co-authored by Sonali Garg, a Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow in James Hanken's lab at the MCZ and Sathyabhama Das Biju, a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow and MCZ Associate of Herpetology.

The Harvard Gazette feature, Who will save the frogs?, discusses their past, what brought Garg and Biju to Harvard, and the sobering report in Nature, with more than 100 scientists who contributed their data and expertise, which shows that nearly 41 percent of amphibian species are threatened with extinction, compared with 26.5 percent of mammals, 21.4 percent of reptiles, and 12.9 percent of birds.