He’s trying to undermine them by breeding exotic frogs legally and selling them at lower prices than specimens plucked by traffickers from Colombia’s jungles. “We can’t control the fact that in some countries it is legal to own these animals,” Lozano said. “We want prices to go down so much that it’s no longer profitable for traffickers to sell these frogs,” Lozano explained. Lozano assigns ID numbers to his frogs, to make it harder for traffickers to sell wild frogs as frogs bred in captivity. Colombia is home to 734 frog species, more than any other country except Brazil.

Source: National Post May 24, 2019 04:07 UTC