Considered extinct for 30 years, the starry night time harlequin toad is flourishing in Colombia because of the native lifestyle.
In Colombia, Arhuaco chief Ruperto Chaparro Villafaña groups up with scientists to save lots of the critically endangered starry night time harlequin toad.
They should unite each indigenous and western scientific data to grasp the function of the toads within the distinctive ecosystem of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the world’s highest coastal mountain and the sacred land of the Arhuacos.
The life cycle of the frog helps decide when to domesticate and harvest totally different crops – the rationale this species is a bellwether for his or her community-based mission.
Chaparro Villafaña should additionally defend their territory in opposition to unlawful land grabbers, at the same time as he's working with scientists to search out the remedy for a lethal fungus that threatens all harlequin toad species within the Central, South and North America.
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