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Guardian of Ecuador’s diverse — and vanishing — frog species

Conservation biologist Andrea Terán-Valdez aims to protect endangered frogs in Ecuador by breeding populations, cataloguing new species and fighting industrial development.
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Andrea Terán-Valdez shot working with scientific collections as part of her research, Ecuador.

Andrea Terán-Valdez is a conservation biologist at the Jambatu Center for Amphibian Research and Conservation in San Rafael, Ecuador. Credit: Jaime Culebras

We are facing a global crisis. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, 41% of frog species globally and 57% of the frog species in Ecuador are endangered, owing primarily to chytrid fungus disease, habitat destruction and climate change. One of our emergency tools for protecting endangered frog species is to take frogs from the wild, breed them in the laboratory and release the offspring into their habitats.

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Nature 615, 960 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00889-2

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