It's results time!

Hello everybody! It's been a long time coming but I'm finally happy to share our results with you. First of all I must apologise, I was hoping to share the results with you sooner but unfortunately Christmas got in the way and I may have eaten/drunk too much. We've currently got a paper in review that outlines our methods and results - I'll share this when it's published. For now, I'll just tell you the results. We swabbed 29 toads this season and 4 tadpoles and these all came up NEGATIVE for both of the amphibian chytrid fungi!

 

One of the midwife toads we swabbed in 2017

This is fantastic news and we couldn't have found this out without generous donors such as yourselves. As we move into 2018 please let me give you all my kindest thoughts as you've helped this project really take off! We're going to to continue to swab the toads this coming season (so look out for updates) as we investigate more areas where the toads could possibly be breeding/hiding and we'd also like to swab more tadpoles. We've also done some genetic work on the toads so there will be a paper in the near future outlining their origins soon - once some more analysis has been done.

Have a Hoppy Newt Year everyone, as a last sign of appreciation attached is a copy of our results from the 2016 field season which was only published online earlier today.