Apply for the 2012 SRARNZ Herpetological Research Awards.

The purpose of the awards is to fund projects with the potential to advance New Zealand herpetology, or New Zealand herpetologists. The grant must be used for research expenses such as field travel, consumables, or equipment purchase or hire. The SRARNZ Council anticipates making several small awards from the total pool of $2000 available in 2012. Therefore, applications are invited for small grants between $500-1000. Download the application form here.

Quick update tonight for the SRARNZ officers:

Secretary : Andy Hutcheon

Vice President : Jo Hoare

For contact details see the Contacts page.

The SRARNZ NZ Lizards Conservation Toolkit is an comprehensive resource developed for the conservation management of the lizards of New Zealand.

See the PDF downloads on the SRARNZ website.

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)

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.