BioGecko aims to be a peer-reviewed, low-cost, online journal publishing scientific research and life history observations relevant to the herpetofauna of New Zealand, or New Zealand herpetologists and ecologists. BioGecko may be an ideal starting point for a student's first paper, or the reporting of surveying or monitoring outcomes by local communities and other stakeholders. We aim to facilitate the exchange of ideas and knowledge between professional and amateur herpetologists and ecologists, conservation managers, students and amphibian and reptile keepers.

Visit us: www.biogecko.co.nz

Mission Statement

BioGecko aims to be a relevant rapid scientific journal publishing empirical and theoretical research—including new methodologies or techniques, exchanging of ideas and communicating life history observations—with implications for the conservation management of New Zealand herpetofauna.

Call for papers!

We are looking for papers for our first edition of BioGecko, hopefully to be released in October or November this year. Therefore, if you have any original research, distribution or life history observations, reviews or syntheses of current knowledge, please consider BioGecko. Authors of papers accepted for publication will receive a free copy of the issue that their paper is published in.

Another herpetological society link:

Smålands Herpetologiska Förening (Sweden)

If you would like to attend the WCH7 in Vancouver next year, keep an eye on the website: http://wch2012vancouver.com/

Note: The deadline for early registration and submission of abstracts is expected to be 29 Feb 2012 - more information will follow on the WCH website in September 2011.

Do you feel like you missed out on the SRARNZ Conference? Or perhaps need a good quality notepad?

SRARNZ Notepads, celebrating 25 years of SRARNZ, are available for a mere $2.50 each, or get five for $10 (plus postage).

These stunning 50 page, A5 notepads feature the SRARNZ logo and are classy black and white.

 Email srarnz.secretary@gmail.com to order yours today.

The SRARNZ website has been recovered after a serious server crash, if you find any missing links or feeds (for example, the RSS for the News Page was broken) please let the webmaster know.

We are intending to update with more pictures soon. If you'd like to contribute more pictures, or videos, or link your papers, again drop the webmaster an email.

The SRARNZ News webpage is RSS enabled. RSS allows you to subscribe to the page and receive updates via email (or RSS reader), so you don't need to keeping checking the website for updates.

Most computers have a built-in RSS reader, although many people use Google Reader to keep their feeds together.

To get started, click on the RSS feed button at the bottom of this page (the icon)

PDF versions of SRARNZ Notes v24-37 are available to download from the SRARNZ Contacts and Notes Page. You will need to login to the site using a password, more details on the Contacts Page.

An updated list of Nicola Grimmond prize winners, and SRARNZ conference localities has been uploaded on the Awards page.

An updated list of SRARNZ Award winners is now available on the Awards Page.

A discussion paper from Dr. Brett Gartrell on reptile euthanasia is available for download as a PDF here. Please contact Dr. Gartrell with any comments.