Happy #WorldFrogDay! 🐸
Frogs are environmental bellwethers, with declines in frog populations often viewed as early warning signs of environmental damage 🛑. Over one-third of species are threatened with extinction, and over 120 are believed to have become extinct ❌since the 1980s. Besides the general threats to biodiversity (habitat destruction/modification 🪵, exploitation, pollution, pesticide use, introduced species, ultraviolet-B radiation, and more), frogs also have a fungus 🍄(Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis or Bd) that causes a disease called Chytridiomycosis.
Here are five different frog species I found during a quick night walk through the forests of the Choco Rainforest (
@reserva.kapari ), one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. Can you identify them all?
I can’t imagine forests without these big-eyed creatures! 👀
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