Agalychnis annae.

[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 =)