G’day guys my name is Jay and I’m a wildlife photographer and conservation story teller.

I wanted to share our exciting story of the rediscovery of the Mindo Harlequin Toad.

High in the Ecuadorian Andes, in a tiny section of the Mindo cloud forest we found survivors of a species thought to be wiped out by Chyrtridiomycosis in 1989.

We also found tadpoles of this species and for the first time in history we were able to photograph and document this stage of their life cycle. We transferred 6 of the tadpoles to a breeding facility to breed an ex-situ colony safely!

This finding was used as evidence to apply for emergency grants to purchase and protect this area of fragile biodiversity from destruction and deforestation.