Fundación Atelopus is a Colombian NGO formed in 2018 that works for the conservation of amphibians and reptiles in the Caribbean region. Our work is mainly focused on species of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, also known as “the world’s most irreplaceable spot for biodiversity”. Together with the Universidad […]

The 9th World Congress of Herpetology (WCH) was held from 5–10 January 2020 at the University of Otago, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the home of ASG Co-Chair Professor Phil Bishop. WCH takes place every 3-4 years, with the aim of promoting herpetological research, education and conservation. Professor Bishop and his […]

During the last two years, between September 2018 and March 2019, we monitored Mantidactylus pauliani (Figure 2) to collect new information on their abundance and distribution. This is a critically endangered species, and known one of the threatened species from Madagascar according Sahonagasy Action Plan, and home in the restricted […]

Of course, Frogs & Friends did not get spared by the pandemic. We had to postpone our planned excursions to Cameroon and Guinea for an indefinite time, and our planned public launch of Citizen Conservation got hit hardly.

In light of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, 2020, […]

The lemur leaf frog (Agalychnis lemur) field season has been radically reinvented due to unforeseen travel restrictions. In Costa Rica the national parks have now reopened so preparations are resuming. Our local field expert has taken charge of the field surveys and is beginning the first stage of the fieldwork […]