Denver Zoo Team Creates Insurance Population to Save the Lake Titicaca Giant Frog

DAILY ROSETTA (USA) 12/14/10 (Jeff Jankowski)

The biologists and the Denver zoo team have gone to South Peru in creating an insurance population laboratory to save the endangered Lake Titicaca giant frog. This insurance population was built as a laboratory for the breeding of more giant frog from Lake Titicaca. Giant frogs were very much in danger of extinction because some people in Peru were capturing them into frog shakes which have become common in their area.

These set of teams from Denver were on its focus on helping to revive the population of these frogs. Before, they have created a breeding laboratory in Lima, but now that the giant frog concern has gotten horrible, they have built another laboratory at Puna near Lake Titicaca. Even before this, Peru had already made laws that were bound to protect these giant frogs but it appears that Peruvian people do not care about the law and still continue in taking the frogs for trade.

For this, the Denver zoo team and biologists have informed the Peruvian public that they will be offering great rewards to people who can identify haulers who have made the giant frogs became endangered. A reward amounting to $2,000 was promised to be given by the team for every successful hint done by Peruvian.

This international project done by the Denver zoo team was just among the mission of the team with an objective that is to secure a better world for animals through human understanding.

From: Herp Digest,
Volume # 10 Issue # 55