In a woodland used as a camp by former FARC, scientists from Humboldt Institute have made a scientific discovery. The “conflict frog” has been named Prismantis chamezensis.
Revered as a symbol of fertility by the Elders of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, a rare harlequin toad is the focus of a conservation/photography project.
The four indigenous groups of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta are helping to protect the Ikagoi ispacue frog, discovered by chance by biologist José Luis Pérez-González.
Andrew Crawford is Associate Professor of Biology at Los Andes University. He spoke with The City Paper about the multiple threats facing Colombia’s “Kermits.”
Colombian whistleblowers say foreigners are paying rural villagers to collect poison arrow frogs for illegal trade in exotic animal markets.