 A global strategy to stem the crisis was released in 2005 in the form of the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan . Developed by over eighty leading experts in the field , this call to action details what would be required to curtail amphibian declines and extinctions over the following five years and how much this would cost . The Amphibian Specialist Group of the IUCN is spearheading efforts to implement a comprehensive global strategy for amphibian conservation . Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex @-@ situ conservation recommendations of this plan , and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world , encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians . One such project is the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project that built on existing conservation efforts in Panama to create a country @-@ wide response to the threat of chytridiomycosis . 
