Agalychnis annae.

[Leon1993]

Some pictures of the development of my group of CB Agalychnis annae that i bred some months ago.

[flybyferns]

Just love this !!
Thanks for sharing the update !
Lynn

[CJ PELCHER]

NICE TADS!,

However, what are you going to do with all these now they they are illegal to sell/trade/give away due to them being on the ENDANGERED LIST.

I think I remember you stating you were going to release them back into the wild. However what worries me is since they are already on the Red List in your local area Im pretty certain its illegal in your area to even house these guys since the year 2004. Im almost positive your frogs are not 9 years old if you claim you got them in a pet trade. Im not entirely positive of your local law, but if its on the endangered list here in america we cant even house them in our local state without special permits from fish and wildlife department. (usually only zoos and scientists can obtain this)

RED LIST

[Leon1993]

NICE TADS!,

However, what are you going to do with all these now they they are illegal to sell/trade/give away due to them being on the ENDANGERED LIST.

I think I remember you stating you were going to release them back into the wild. However what worries me is since they are already on the Red List in your local area Im pretty certain its illegal in your area to even house these guys since the year 2004. Im almost positive your frogs are not 9 years old if you claim you got them in a pet trade. Im not entirely positive of your local law, but if its on the endangered list here in america we cant even house them in our local state without special permits from fish and wildlife department. (usually only zoos and scientists can obtain this)

RED LIST

I know this frogs are endangered, that's the main reason why we are breeding them in captivity, i never said i was interested in sell/trade/give away the frogs, on the contrary, we are completely against keeping this frogs or other species in captivity, unless you are keeping them for conservation purposes. I never claimed i got them in a pet trade, i would like to know where did you get that information from, our frogs were given to us by INBioparque to start breeding them in captivity for our conservation project, we do have the permits from MINAET to keep and breed this frogs in captivity. To the only ones we are given frogs away are Arenal Natura and Arenal Ecoo zoo, as we are the only ones working with A. annae in Costa Rica for the moment, we will be sending some individuals to this two ecological parks as they will be breeding this species in the future as well. Thanks for your concern anyway!

[CJ PELCHER]

Leon,

Please understand I am not accusing you of anything. This was more of questions and answers post. KEY NOTE: "IF YOU CLAIM YOU GOT THEM IN A PET TRADE"

I was basicaly trying to get more information on your efforts. As I mentioned in a previous post I fully support your efforts as these are one of my favorite frogs. I just wanted to make sure it was legal in this thread. =)

I see you also mentioned "WE" in this post. WHo is "WE"?

Thanks for the info. I love educating myself of whats going on in the world of conservation

[Leon1993]

I will be opening a website for our conservation project where people can find pictures of the frogs been released into the wild as well as info on our goal and more info on the frogs we are currently working with, also people will be able to send donations to support the conservation of this species. I also plan to open our lab to the public in a near future (not so near really) so people can come and we can explain to them about the frogs and why we should help with the conservation. Still a lot of things to do first, my next goal for this year is to breed our group of C calcarifer, i tried once a couple of months ago and they went in amplexus but no eggs, i believe our female is around 2 years old and she has never been in breeding conditions before so it will take a couple of amplexus or more to finally get some eggs, i will be getting 1 or 2 females more for our group. After breeding C calcarifer i am planning to breed Anotheca spinosa, Agalychnis lemur and Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni as well.

[CJ PELCHER]

Leon,

My question remains unanswered: WHO IS WE? WHO IS OUR?
You have some incredible breeding projects going on with some extraordinary frogs. This is the first post you have made that stated WE...before it was all YOU. IM SO CONFUSED! What conservation company do you work for? You mentioned you do this in a lab for the first time as well. Do you have pictures of your lab? Id love to see the environment you breed all these guys in FULL PANARAMIC VIEW! That would be outstanding! =)
What permits are required to breed this SPECIFIC species? You mentioned more than one...how many are there? Does the company you work for have them or are you working under the companies permit? You seem to be doing an outstanding job with what you are doing (well what YOU GUYS are doing) You just threw me off with this last 2 posts though. How were you given the frogs from INBioparque? Did they require the permits on hand or was this before they became endangered. Are you breeding wild caught frogs or captive bred frogs? Im soo interested in your project and I know a few others are as well

[Leon1993]

Our center still under development but we will be opening a site full of information like i said before. I am currently not working for any conservation "company", this is a conservation project created by myself not a company. I will upload some pictures for sure! Here in Costa Rica the only permits you need to keep this frogs are the ones from MINAET, but you need to prove that you are keeping the frogs for conservational purposes only. At this moment i'm working with a group of 3.3 Agalychnis annae (CB), 3.3 Agalychnis callidryas (WC), 1.1 Cruziohyla calcarifer (WC). I got my first group of A. annae from INBio as i have several fellow biologist who work there, the first group i got from them were wild caught frogs, i managed to breed them for the first time and i kept 10 F1 frogs, and released the rest including the parents in "Braulio Carrillo". I picked 10 more tadpoles from another bloodline from a pond near my home (there are pictures of the place here) we bred those frogs and the ones that we are breeding now are the offspring of those individuals . Our Agalychnis callidryas and Cruziohyla calcarifer are all wild caught as well, i don't like to get frogs from the wild but here in Costa Rica we are the only ones breeding frogs in captivity.

[CJ PELCHER]

Thanks for sharing leon. Keep up the posts. =) I enjoy them =)

[Heatheranne]

Leon, this is wonderful! Congratulations! Any chance you would please post pictures as they grow?

[Leon1993]

Leon, this is wonderful! Congratulations! Any chance you would please post pictures as they grow?

Thanks! yes i will be posting pictures of this group as they grow for sure!

[Heatheranne]

Wonderful! Thank you . So nice to hear of people working to save native populations .

[flybyferns]

Leon,
Thanks so much. As always ..... this information is wonderful to read about.
Please keep us posted regarding , INBioparque

I wish I were there ! You are so fortunate to be involved in such valuable work !

This year's Frog Day !
Much of the proceeds go to great causes !
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Heatheranne and I are meeting there--- we're excited !

Look forward to hearing more about your success !
Lynn

[Leon1993]

Thanks for your support! my project is not called INBioparque, INBioparque is the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica and they were founded since 1989, i just got some of my frogs from them, also right now they are not breeding frogs of any species unfortunately.

[Rocky Raven]

This is just wonderful! :3 Look at those cuttie froggies! U & ur group is awesome for doing this!

[Leon1993]

A CB male Agalychnis annae in the rain chamber (old picture).