Save Ghana Frogs

24/08/2026

NEW PUBLICATION 📝 !!!!

Conservation with Equity, published in Environments.

Save Ghana Frogs is pleased to share a new paper by our Founder and Executive Director, Gilbert B. Adum and Distinguished Professor Maureen G. Reed of the University of Saskatchewan.

The paper advances the Conservation with Equity (Co-WE) framework, which brings together four interlinked dimensions of equitable conservation governance:
-Recognition
-Procedure
-Distribution
-Ecological Reconciliation

Co-WE offers a scholarly basis for examining how conservation institutions recognize rights and authority, involve people in decision making, distribute benefits and burdens, and address damaged relationships among peoples, institutions, and lands. The framework also provides a foundation for developing practical tools that can help conservation practitioners, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, governments, and other partners assess and strengthen equity in conservation.

This work contributes to a growing international conversation about how conservation can achieve ecological goals while taking rights, governance, justice, and relationships seriously.

📖 Read the open-access paper:
Conservation with Equity: A Framework for Effective Governance and Ecological Reconciliation in Biosphere Reserves
https://doi.org/10.3390/environments13080459

20/08/2026

As part of our ecological restoration efforts using the Modified Taungya System, we are collaborating with the Sikaneasem Community and the Sefwi Wiawso Forest District to restore 10 hectares of degraded habitats in compartment 127 of the Sui River Forest Reserve in aid of amphibian conservation and biodiversity recovery.

10,000 native tree seedlings have been raised to augment this effort. Native tree species that were planted include ofram, mahogany, and edinam. The seedlings were raised by the community with support and guidance from our team!

04/08/2026

Engaging women and young ladies in the Sui River Forest Landscape in liquid soap making. This initiative adds to the numerous skills they already possess as we expand their streams of income!

As an alternative livelihood project aimed at safeguarding the Sui River Forest Reserve and the habitat of the Giant Squeaker Frog, we used the opportunity to sensitize participants on sustainable forest utilization and amphibian conservation.

Thanks to Synchronicity Earth and From the Brink for their generous funding that made this training possible.

18/07/2026

🌎🌍🌏 More than half the world's threatened amphibians live in Latin America—and that's where most of AArk's work has been directed for years. But the second Global Amphibian Assessment shows that threatened amphibians cluster in tropical hotspots well beyond Latin America, including across the Afrotropics and South Asia. These regions have received comparatively less attention. Sri Lanka alone accounts for more amphibian extinctions than anywhere else on Earth!

Because of this, in 2025 we began extending the approach we've built in the Neotropics into these regions, working alongside global partners as part of a new amphibian coalition.

But that's just one thread of a year that saw AArk grow in many ways: three new team members, 35 professionals trained in amphibian husbandry, two genus-wide conservation planning workshops, and over 200 amphibian assessments.

None of this would have happened without the support from our donors and partners around the world!

🐸 Our 2025 Annual Report is now available—read more about what you made possible for amphibian rescue in 2025: https://www.amphibianark.org/fileadmin/uploads/aark/Annual_Reports/Amphibian_Ark_2025_Annual_Report.pdf?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=AnnualReport25

16/07/2026

13/07/2026

The Giant Squeaker Frog Backyard Food Forest Takes Root at Bonwire JHS, located at Sefwi Akontombra in the Western North Region of Ghana!

The Giant Squeaker Frog Backyard Food Forest at Bonwire JHS is a student-led conservation and food security initiative that transforms the school’s backyard into a productive forest garden while raising awareness about one of the world’s rarest amphibians, the critically endangered Giant Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis krokosua).

As part of the establishment of the food forest, our Forest Conservation Officer, together with dedicated volunteers, teachers, and students of Bonwire JHS, planted a variety of indigenous and economically important tree species and crops, including mahogany, mansonia, edinam, mango, orange, plantain, and pineapple. These plantings will enhance biodiversity, improve food security, and create a greener, more resilient school environment that supports both people and nature.

We are grateful to Synchronicity Earth & From the Brink for their generous funding.

13/07/2026

06/07/2026

22/06/2026

The Amazon is home to the world’s greatest amphibian diversity, with an estimated 1,525 species, of which only 810 have been formally described by science.

This megadiversity is under pressure from climate change and human activity, threatening the risk of species going extinct before scientists even get a chance to describe them.

MANAUS, Brazil — Crouched over the leaf litter, where dry leaves accumulate on the forest floor, a researcher tries to capture a distinct croak using a directional microphone. Identifying the sound of a small frog is often one of the conclusive proofs that a new species has been found. It’s nigh...

12/06/2026