Tracking Frogs In the Amazon Rain Forest
Jan. 30, 2016 - One night, biologist Jennifer Serrano crouched by a stream in the rain forests of the Manú Biosphere Reserve in Peru. She had spotted a poison dart frog unlike any she had seen before. Back at the research station, she could find no record of the frog in the official field guide, and she and the research team began to suspect this frog was new to science. Three years later, Serrano and the Crees Foundation have published a paper officially recognizing the Ameerega shihuemoy as a new frog.
Amphibians are especially vulnerable to environmental threats in the rain forest. As the Crees Foundation works to restore a region of regenerating forest, they are seeing just how little we previously knew about this colorful and vibrant ecosystem.
And as Serrano observes, “There is no university or classroom where you are going to learn the same as in the forest.”
This film was supported by the Crees Foundation and directed by filmmaker Nick Werber.
http://www.crees-manu.org/
http://www.nickwerber.com/
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