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Applied Herpetology New journal from 2003! Editor-in-Chief: Dr M.R.K. Lambert Environmental Initiatives Lydbrook House Upper Lydbrook Gloucestershire GL17 9LP England E-mail: Managing Editor: Dr A. Hailey School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1UG England E-mail: Aims Applied Herpetology is a new, international journal addressing research on amphibians and reptiles with a focus on biodiversity, conservation, environmental monitoring, farming, natural products development and wildlife management. A main objective of the journal is to enhance communication between academic scientists, researchers in industry, governmental bodies, international agencies and others involved in applied research involving herpetofauna. The target audience includes: herpetologists agricultural scientists veterinarians pharmaceutical researchers toxicologists environmental scientists biologists advising planners and policy makers Scope Applied herpetology was defined at a workshop of the Fourth World Congress of Herpetology (Colombo, January 2002) as those studies in herpetology that concern man and his interests, or result from human interference. Such studies are increasingly important; in future it is likely that little research funding will be made available for work in herpetology that is not applied. Among the subjects so far identified as applied herpetology and covered by the journal Applied Herpetology are: Natural products development: amphibians and reptiles as a source of bioactive material - antibiotics, analgesics, diuretics and anticoagulants; toxinology (snake and lizard venoms) and pharmacology (amphibian skin secretions). Environmental monitoring: Amphibian teratological studies to monitor environmental health via incidence of abnormalities in populations; bioaccumulation of heavy metals and such pollutants as pesticides in tissues of amphibians and reptiles, and the use of species in turn as bioindicators of habitat contamination; endocrinological disruption from pollution. Farming: captive breeding and husbandry techniques to maintain stocks for teaching, exhibition, experimental purposes, food and other commodities (reptile leather industry; tortoiseshell), as well as for the restocking of wild populations; pathology and disease. Conservation and wildlife management: Species protection and autecology; biodiversity assessment; preparation of country checklists and annotated inventories; use of species richness, and assemblages/associations as bioindication of habitat quality and change; habitat management; establishment of faunal reserves; reintroduction and relocation (including mitochondrial DNA determination); veterinary aspects; sustainable utilization of economic species. Legal aspects: welfare; conservation; international trade. ISSN 1570-7539 E-ISSN 1570-7547 Subscription data 2002: Volume 1 in 4 issues Institutional rate: EUR 199   US$ 230 Individual rate: EUR 199   US$ 230