The Minister of Natural Resources and Tourism in Tanzania and the Minister of Water and the Environment in Uganda Congratulating the Organizers for the Effort Made

Project leader, Dave Blackburn, studies African frog diversity through studies in the field, the lab, and museums. Many projects integrate both different types of data and methods, and depend on scientific specimens collected through new field work, as well as those collected decades ago. (Photo Credit: B. Freiermuth)

Post-doctoral researcher Luis Ceríaco in July 2014 surveying the Angolan collections of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical in Portugal. The primary goal of this project is to digitize hard-copy records of amphibian and reptile species so that these records are discoverable and usable by the global scientific community. Angola. (Photo Credit: M. Marques)

PI Aaron Bauer examining a living specimen of the gecko Chondrodactylus angulifer. Dr. Bauer has studied the reptiles of Namibia for nearly thirty years and was recently an editor for the JRS-sponsored Reptile Atlas and Red Data Book of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. (Photo Credit: M. Heinicke)

The Namib Desert in Namibia is an important center of reptile diversity in southern Africa. This picture was taken near Gobabeb, where we will host a training session in biodiversity informatics for Angolan and Namibian colleagues during this project. Namibia. (Photo Credit: M. Heinicke)