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Editors
Robert Powell
Executive Editor 
Avila University, Kansas City, MO

AJ Gutman
Editor
West Hartford, CT

Gad Perry
Associate Editor
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Kaela E. Champlin
Assistant Editor
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

Michael Ripca
Art Director
Atco, NJ

John Binns
Graphics/Photography
International Reptile Conservation
Foundation, San Jose, CA

Sandy Binns
Services Coordinator
International Reptile Conservation
Foundation, San Jose, CA

Editorial Board

Allison C. Alberts
Zoological Society of San Diego

Frederic J. Burton
Blue Iguana Recovery Program

Arthur C. Echternacht
University of Tennessee

L. Lee Grismer
La Sierra University

Robert W. Henderson
Milwaukee Public Museum

John B. Iverson
Earlham College

Charles R. Knapp
Zoological Society of San Diego

Gunther Köhler
Senckenberg Museum

Kenneth L. Krysko
Florida State Museum of 
Natural History

Jan Ramer
Indianapolis Zoo

Thomas Wiewandt
Wild Horizons

Statement of Purpose
The International Reptile Conservation Foundation works to conserve reptiles and
the natural habitats and ecosystems that support them.

The International Reptile Conservation Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501 c(3) California corporation.

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Solicitations
The IRCF encourages contribution of articles, letters to the Editor, news items, and announcements for publication
in IGUANA. General articles can deal with any aspect of reptilian biology, including conservation, behavior, ecology,
physiology, systematics, or husbandry. Submission of photographs to accompany articles is encouraged. Manuscripts
may be submitted via e-mail (send to AJ@IRCF.org).  Authors of one page or more of print will receive a free copy
of the journal in which their contribution appears, and will receive a PDF file of their article for distribution.

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Copyright © 2007 by the International Reptile Conservation Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this journal may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, includ-
ing information storage and retrieval systems, without the publisher’s written permission. Iguana, Conservation, Natural History, and Husbandry of Reptiles (ISSN 1098-6324) is published quarterly by the
International Reptile Conservation Foundation, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, 3010 Magnum Drive, San Jose, CA. Periodical postage paid at San Jose, CA.

Editors’ Remarks

Although our focus remains on rep-
tiles and their conservation, we

will include from time-to-time refer-
ences to amphibians (as indicated in
this space in the previous issue). The
plight of the Earth’s amphibians is 
eloquently summarized in the
“Commentary” by Jeffrey P. Bonner (p.
122). Faced with a host of perils that
range from fungal diseases to habitat
destruction and global climate changes,
amphibians may well serve as indicators
of human-mediated changes that
threaten entire ecosystems. We would
be wise to closely monitor the situation
for the sakes of frogs and salamanders,
all wildlife, and even our own futures.

The Editors of IGUANA

IRCF
International Reptile Conservation Foundation

The St. Vincent Frog (Eleutherodactylus shrevei) is listed on the
IUCN Red List as “endangered,” primarily due to a very restricted
range on a single island, where it appears to depend on increasingly
threatened rainforest habitats. However, the discovery of the chytrid
fungus in the West Indies, its almost inevitable introduction onto
St. Vincent, and the fact that amphibians that occupy habitats at
high elevations appear to be most vulnerable to its effects speak
clearly and sadly to an uncertain future for this tiny frog.

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