Rescuing the Frogs
Indigenous conservation practices in Mexico are helping endangered frogs to recover. The post Rescuing the Frogs appeared first on Nautilus.
Long slender fingers and toes wrap around a verdant branch, and a bulging yellow eye peers at me watchfully, the tiny mouth firmly set. I’m gazing through my camera lens at a Oaxacan Cloud Forest Tree Frog (Charadrahyla nephila). These frogs make their home, aptly, in the cloud forests of the Sierra Madre mountains in Oaxaca, Mexico. From snout to end, they measure just 2 to 3 inches long.
The tiny tree frog is one of), the Chinanteca Salamander (), the Mexican Fringe-limbed Tree Frog () and the Southern Highland Tree Frog (). I recently had the privilege of documenting them in their native habitat.
