Sad news about the death of Tim Halliday (https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/may/13/tim-halliday-obituary-amphibians-global-decline ) a man who was a real advocate for urgent imperatives to attempt to reduce the rate of extinction (due to a mixture of climate change, habitat loss, pollution and fungal infections) currently faced by the world's amphibia. I remember teaching with Tim at Open University summer schools in the mid- 1970s and found him to be an innovative and enthusiastic Zoologist. I also reviewed the excellent book he edited in 2002 with Kraig Adler, The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians. Amphibians (and Reptiles?) will need to rapidly find new protectors (it is reported that Tim worried that he was becoming an 'extinction Biologist' rather than a conservator).
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