What did ACA accomplish?
One of ACA’s first achievements was to propose and help found AmphibiaNet (later renamed AmphibiaWeb), the first online database of amphibian biology and conservation information in the world. AmphibiaWeb has since become an important scientific resource. But by far ACA’s largest accomplishment was expanding U.S. amphibian decline research and monitoring funding through a multi-year process of direct outreach to policymakers and citizen action. Among other things: • ACA advocated and tracked the appropriation and spending of nearly $30 million in federal funding for amphibian conservation research and monitoring over 5 fiscal years. • ACA met regularly with Members of the U.S. Congress, staff of several House and Senate committees and various federal agencies in support of continuing, new and additional funding for amphibian decline research and monitoring by over half a dozen federal agencies. • ACA published a highly ranked website, FROGS.ORG, which attracted over 1 million unique vi
