Amphibian partnerships - Monitoring a population of undescribed Atelopus,...

Project title

Monitoring a population of undescribed Atelopus, in the National Park Guaramacal.

Summary for web

Region

South America

Contact

Juan Elías García-Pérez

Position

Biologist, Professor, Curator of amphibian and reptiles of Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare.

Primary institution

University of the Western Plains, Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales Ezequiel Zamora (UNELLEZ)

Address

Vice-Rectorado de Producción Agrícola, Mesa de Cavaca, Guanare, Portuguesa, 3101

Telephone

Email

jegarciap@cantv.net jegarciap@gmail.com

Web page

Other institutions

PROVITA, INPARQUES

Subject

Captive propagation; Ex situ conservation; Husbandry; Long-term monitoring; Reintroduction

Species

Atelopus sp.

Start date

Finish date

Comments

We have not found adult individuals, but only larvae, which must be raised in captivity, because the physical threats in the occupancy area. The personnel of the Park would like to build a facility in which to raise the juveniles to metamorphosis, and then release them back to the wild.

February 2013: The project continues and we have incorporated two recently re-discovered species A. chrysocorallus and A. pinangoi. We recently found 70 tadpoles of Atelopus de Guaramacal so they are breeding. We now include ex situ breeding for suplmentation. We would like to work with aquariums located as close to the natural distribution to diminish costs and develop protocols accesible to others. We are monitoring the three species now.

Total project amount

25,000

Yearly $ support

$5,000

Supplies

Training needs

Tadpole husbandry.

Needs specifications

Volunteers

Volunteer help

Financing institutions

UNELLEZ, PROVITA.

Other non-amphibian programs

Actual conservation status of Ameiva provitaae (Sauria: Teiidae) in the Bolson Arido de Lagunillas, Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Conservation status of the black tailed andean lizard clade (Anadia: Gymnophthalmidae) in the Cordillera de Mérida. Monitoring of Atelopus pinangoi (Anura: Bufonidae) in the type locality. Monitoring of Atelopus chrysocorallus (Anura: Bufonidae) in the Ramal de Calderas. Conservation status of two species of the Ameiva bifrontata complex (Sauria: Teiidae) in the venezuelan Llanos. Conservation status of an isolated and diferenciated population of the red snout lizard Ameiva bifrontata complex (Sauria: Teiidae), in the Bolsón Arido de Agua Viva, Maracaibo Lake Basin.

Country

Venezuela

Project photo

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Photo caption

Quebrada El Pollo, Chicken Creek, tadpole`s habitat. Photo: Juan Elías García-Pérez.

Project photo 2

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Photo caption 2

Atelopus sp. tadpole. Photo: Juan Elías García-Pérez.

SortChar

Ven

Date added

12/12/2009

Date updated

2/13/2013

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