Identification of important biodiversity areas, whether centers of high diversity or endemism, are critical for reserve selection and design, helping focus scarce conservation money on areas of highest priority. Design of these conservation programs and priorities should be based on inputs from scientific databases. But information amphibian distribution, ecology, and systematic is still grossly incomplete. For tropical Asia in general, the lack of data on distribution and abundance makes accurate estimates of levels of imperilment of the amphibian fauna impossible. These data gaps seriously constrain our ability to understand factors that potentially threaten species and populations. Therefore, active lobbying and conservation education are necessary for directing both public interest and institutional support toward the fauna. On the bright side, the publication of several new field guides and the increasing interest in the herpetofauna bodes well for conservation of the group as a whole. Global amphibian die-offs are of the most intensively studied conservation projects at present, and although much remains to be learned, the increase in the number of workers in the last two decades and the resulting publications reveal a growing interest in tropical Asia’s amphibian fauna.