The Amphibian Foundation's Frog Blog

The Frogs of Colombia exhibit, with some of the plants replaced with endemic plants from the Fuqua Orchid Center. This is a project between me, Becky Brinkman (Orchid Center Manager) and Chris Miller, a new volunteer here and accomplished amphibian exhibit designer. Triolena and a Masdevallia orchid. The orchid is a hybrid as is the Phyllobates terribilis x P. bicolor next to it Phyllobates terribilis and a flowering Masdevallia A cheerful expression on this Phyllobates All three Phyllobates variations on exhibit: Phyllobates terribilis (mint), P. bicolor and P. terribilis (gold) Phyllobates often find a nice perch to claim The Costa Rica exhibit. If you look closely, you can spot at least 2 Agalychnis lemur , the critically endangered Lemur Leaf Frog Agalychnis lemur , with the new Microgamma above his right shoulder A Lemur Frog peeking out behind a new Masdevallia Dendrobates auratus is one of the shyer frogs we have on exhibit...

A Splendid Leaf frog ( Cruziohyla calcarifer ) was featured on Fox 5's 'Wednesday's Child' program Wednesday's Child: William - Atlanta News, Weather, Traffic, and Sports | FOX 5 Wednesday's Child, A National Program to help children find adoptive families, featured William at the Atlanta Botanical Garden last week. Karen Graham and William toured around the Garden, and the frogs, some of which were featured in the segment, as well as myself, Tracy and Anita, our Wednesday volunteer. For more information on William, please click here: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/23708214/wednesdays-child-william Anita Wallace, one of the Amphibian Program volunteers, showing William some of the Panamanian frogs William knew a lot about frogs, and was mesmerized (as am I) with the lethal Colombian species

A recent picture of our Rabb's Fringe-limbed tree frog. Currently believed to be the last of the species. Since he was featured in the July issue of National Geographic , I have heard from an overwhelming amount of concerned people regarding this frog. I am grateful to Joel Sartore and National Geographic magazine for getting his story out there, but the truth is this species in not in a unique situation. Many amphibian species are currently threatened with extinction worldwide (Recent research suggests that more than one third of amphibian species are declining). The reasons for this are various and are most likely working in concert towards amphibian population declines. I thought I would mention that as of today, our last Rabb's Fringe-limbe tree frog is doing well. He is holding his weight and eating. He likes to sit in his tree hole and take it easy most of the time, and we try not to bother him too much. Recently, I had a request for some higher reso...

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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Stacey for the Ellie and Edmond blog (ellieandedmond.com) http://ellieandedmond.com/2013/04/20/meet-mark-a-frog-conservationist/