With World Environment Day upon us, we would like to highlight a conservation project in Colombia.

Rainforest Trust in collaboration with Fundación para la Conservación de la Vida Silvestre helps to safeguard Colombia’s Andean rainforest, which is home to an extraordinary diversity of rare and threatened amphibians. The partnership has helped protect critical habitat for 13 threatened species, including the Critically Endangered Pristimantis tribulosus and the Endangered Andinobates daleswansoni.

In the Andinobates-Boquerón Reserve, near Colombia’s Selva de Florencia National Natural Park, community-led monitoring has documented images of these amphibians in their natural habitat. This roughly 1,000-acre reserve is vital for the survival of these frogs and toads, which are highly sensitive to changes in land and water quality and serve as indicator species for the overall health of the ecosystem.

Amphibians play a vital role in maintaining rainforest balance and provide scientists with a micro-view of environmental stress. These small creatures play a key role in the overall health of the rainforest and can signal the broader impacts of deforestation, climate change, and habitat degradation.

The protection of the Andinobates-Boquerón Reserve is part of Rainforest Trust’s larger mission to preserve the world’s most threatened tropical habitats. To date, Rainforest Trust has helped safeguard more than 56 million acres worldwide, ensuring that critical habitats like these remain safe for wildlife and the communities who depend on them.

About Rainforest Trust

Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has been working with partners to safeguard imperiled tropical habitats and threatened species by helping to establish protected and conserved areas in partnership with Indigenous and local organizations and communities. To date, Rainforest Trust has helped protect more than 56 million acres of vital habitat across Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. Rainforest Trust is a nonprofit organization that relies upon the generous support of the public to successfully implement its important conservation action.