I've been to Red Frog Beach - one of the most beautiful beaches that I have every seen. How much better however it could be if the people and businesses on Bastimentos Island rally behind the survival of this little frog and the namesake of this beach! This documentary, with passion and clarity, does a great job in telling the story of this tiny frog and providing some practical common sense solutions to the issue that would not only allow a world class resort to co-exist with its namesake but provide another reason for visitors to come and enjoy this place. Long live Oophaga pumilio! Great job Kendall on this film.
Great job Kendall. I am a videographer and dart frog enthusiast for over 20 years. I keep many morphs of pumilio. I plan to take a trip to Panama this year, and RFB was one of the places in the Bocas I was planning to visit. Your film was a very informative and a well put together documentary. It is sad that the locals do not understand how they are harming the wildlife there, but I am glad that efforts are being made to bring the frogs back. I will share this video with everyone I know in the hobby and community. Again, Great Job!
I see why bastimentos vary so heavily now in coloration pattern with in the pet keeping hobby. The local-genetics were heavily tampered with by young kids bringing new frogs to the beach to sell. awesome video and very educational
Beautiful movie, we just stayed three days on Bastimentos and spotted 2 red frogs in the jungle. The trash is still a problem. Thank you for this wonderful movie. We learned a lot. We will share the link in our vlog.
Awesome job exposing what's happening out there with diminishing habitat causing species to go extinct it's a damn sad thing! I just started breeding azurus dart frogs so this really hit home! We need more people like you!
Thanks for bringing to the attention of a larger audience. I have been on some other Bocas islands and seen different color morphs (Colons, parklands, Nancy, etc) which was wonderful. How beautiful a world we live in, how poorly we manage it....hope to see frogs live on all these islands for a great many years to come...
Thank you so much for this video. I have a land with bromeliads and have many amphybians. This video encourage me to take more care about the nature richness. Thank you!!
I visited Bastimentos island about a year ago. It seems to me like pumilio there have rather specific habitat requirements. Much of the island is now cattle pasture which doesn't harbor any but I did find them in the narrow strips of forest bordering the pastures. They were easiest to find in various places around Bastimentos town, including garbage piles behind homes-a reserve of mostly second growth forest connected with a small lodge had a very dense population, but I didn't observe any in the forests near Wizard Beach on the backside of the island in spite of this forest being quite mature looking.
The best thing if one really wants to preserve tis endangered frog species is to forbid people altogether, at least for some years. Fantastic tropical paradises all around the world have these sorts of resorts (I've been to some of them as a scientist researching stuff). I's a tough call, people want to make a living and people want nature. I've also witnessed (over several years) other frog species completely disappear due to a lengthy drought, nothing to do with people. Good little doc too!
As a moderator on the belgium frog forum i posted this video link on our website, i also posted it on the dutch frog forum. we need documentaries like this to make people aware of the current situation! ty you so mutch for all the effort you put in the making of this video! best regards, tijl www.gifkikkerportaal.nl/ www.gifkikkerforum.be/
een vraag die je beter op een van de fora kan stellen, het heeft weinig met deze video of onderwerp te maken denk ik dan... :D maar ik kan je zeggen dat al mijn bakken,stelling en een deel van mijn dieren van bij Rana komen en ik ben over alles meer dan tevreden!
As herpetologist, conservationist, and now into the film making (please check my Doc Frog Channel in RU-vid), I am glad to find jewels like this, a personally made documentary which is well done, extraordinaryly well filmed, and informative. I know the island and the frogs, and I also agree with all seen in the doc. Congrats, and thanks!
B.t.w.: the late Chris van der Lingen, from the Netherlands, was a great advocate of protecting the pumilio (and other) frogs on the Bocas islands. He had set up house on the island Colon in order to protect the small animals and inform the public about them. Unfortunately, he passed away some four years ago. R.I.P.
Great video of that, in my opinion that's why people should learn to have respect when it comes to wildlife animals. Even the same thing for trees a's well.
I love the sounds of frogs singing and you would think living in Florida I would hear it all the time but sadly it has become rare. It seems to have happened so quickly. It's depressing that animals that have been around for so long can not survive humans. We truly do not deserve what we have wasted so carelessly.
Have they made impact report on the creation of a cruise marina...so tourists can see the habitats of the tree frogs and so the conservation of these habitats can be continued.
I really enjoyed your video. I just love all the Dart Frogs from around the world, & am glad to see some people are trying to make a difference. In fortunately it seems that for some types of Dart & Arrow frogs it may be that the only way they don't go extinct is through captive breeding. It's sad to think that most people don't care if there are wonderful creatures like this in the world, hopefully they wake up before it's to late for all of us. For without them there is no US.
Don't be too upset. These are reports from people who need everything to be a complete disaster in order to receive fat research grants. If everything is fine they need to find real jobs basically. That's the problem with "conservationism". It very easily turns into a scam, where the resources you get are tied to how many species you can present as endangered. And it is a scam now, with greedy politicians and corporations right behind the "scientists".
I agree with your comment sometimes. But not here. I personally financed this film, filmed it, edited it, and at the end of the day, I am out a few thousand dollars simply to tell others what is going on in Bastimentos. I am actually a high school math teacher (my real job). I gain nothing from this, but I hope the frogs gain something. I am a little surprised at how ignorant your comments are, but this is the internet...
No, what I meant is that "anthropogenic global warming" and "climate change" and similar nonexistent or fanciful things are like a postmodern version of the devil from the middle ages. Anything bad happening that scientists (priests) can't explain is automatically the fault of humans and we're evil and bad and all need to die. I've even heard some "scientists" claim that increased volcanic activity and even increased solar activity are caused by "human caused global warming". And it's just another superstition. A lazy, bogus "explanation" that doesn't require any evidence because all the stupid peasants have already been preconditioned to believing it And the very basic truth here is that "scientists" have absolutely no idea whatsoever what the natural extinction rate of frogs is, because they haven't been studied with the sort of obsessive detail they are now for long enough to know. And you can not trust reports about what species are and are not threatened, endangered and extinct, because there are political agendas underpinning everything now. The UN is gobbling up more and more land as "protected zones", and the elitists who run it have a motive for presenting things as as bad as possible to legitimize this process. Humans are always, always bad and need to die, and globalist politicians are always, always good. And even is they are not, we can just add the words "scientists think" to everything to make any debate impossible. As a high school teacher you are exactly the sort of person who is in the crosshairs of the worst of this anti human propaganda from the sociopathic people making all the decisions in this plutocratic, oligarchical society. After all, you're the one tasked with brainwashing the next generation. And you can hardly be trusted with that unless you personally believe as much of it as possible. Hitler is perfect and good and all Germans must love him. This you must fervently believe or you will find yourself unemployed. And no, it is not at all any different from this, whatever you choose to believe. You must believe in or pretend to believe in globalism, feminism, homosexual normalcy, "democracy" and any number of other entirely unscientific things. Or you will be fired. And I should know. I used to be a teacher. I thought that my job was to help my students learn how to think rather than indoctrinate them into what to think. But I was wrong. My job was to be a brainwasher, and I failed miserably at it by encouraging my students to question authority. Which is incidentally what I thought the scientific process was supposed to be about. As it turns out the purpose of science is to generate politically convenient truths for the oligarchy, and not to teach people about the world. I figured this out too late though. I'm not even saying you're wrong. I'm saying that you have all sorts of preconceptions that prevent you from looking at these things objectively. Assume that every "authority" in the world has a motive to lie to you and then look at everything again. And again, and again. That would be a scientific approach. But it is almost illegal now. Say or even think one thing that isn't according to what the "scientific consensus" is and you will be treated like an intellectual leper. And science is not supposed to be a consensus activity. I'm sorry that you spent a thousand dollars repeating some of what is actually nothing more than propaganda. I think it would have been a much better film if you had done your own thinking, rather than rely on data from people who categorically can not be trusted because they have financial and political motives to exaggerate. I believe in local conservationism, period. Like the frogs near my town. They really were threatened. Not by some vague, global, bogus threat from the evil humans, but by people walking their dogs near the ponds they were breeding in in spring. A notice was sent out to everyone to please walk the dog somewhere else in April and May and the frogs recovered. That is the sort of conservationism that has a chance of working. But not when "anthropogenic global warming" is artificially inserted as a bogus "explanation" for things. You can"t do anything about that locally, even if it wasn't retarded anti human propaganda, so the entire thing becomes pointless. But detergent runoff in the water, pets, leaking chemicals from plastic, noise etc are all things you can easily do something about locally. The basic idea is to figure out what has changed, if anything, and take steps to reverse some of those things. Personally I will always believe changes to the habitats of frogs and other animals has more to do with synthetic chemicals being introduced into the wild because of elitist stupidity than anything else. And I wasn't the one who decided to move from paper, metal and glass to plastic. Or from natural chemistry that cannot be patented by some rich sociopath to synthetic chemistry that can. Politicians, bureaucrats and even "conservationists" were. I was fine with organically degradable things as my trash because that makes sense. But no, it was "bad for the trees" and caused "anthropogenic global warming" when I burned it in my stove. Again, think. Just please please think.
Fishslap 33 you cannot deny chytridiomycosis is a human induced issue. The same goes with agrochemical contamination, climate change, introduced species and stratospheric ozone depletion. This issue is a global crisis - when a whole class of organisms shows rapid declines it highlights our dire ecological situation.
Remove climate change from your brain. I refuse to listen to anything you say as long as this globalist turd is in your rant. it has always been happening, ergo it is not caused by humans. The ozone hole was their last scam, which you would know had you been alive in the 1980s. They made all sorts of hysterics about that, and then it was discovered that the ozone layer waxes and vanes and is now stronger than it was when measurements started. Chemical pollution, yes. Species introduction, yes. You could even add nuclear fallout from radioactive plant meltdowns and waste, as well as the Israeli and US use of depleted uranium munitions to the list. Or overfishing. Or deforestation. But all of these things can be solved WITHOUT GLOBAL GOVERNMENT! And that is probably why they are not issues of any relevance to the environazi movement at all. But not man made climate change and the ozone layer. These are frauds, and you lose all credibility as soon as you reference them. These bogus issues are not being hyped for environmental reasons, but political, economic and eugenics reasons. There are too many people you see, according to swine like Rockefeller. And the environazi movement is the way we're going to fix that. EEVUL HUMANS and anthropogenic global warming and ozone monsters and OOGABOOGABOOGA! This crap will lead to genocide. In fact it already is, because third world countries can't afford useless, absurd things like "carbon taxes". Starvation in Africa now? Yes, that is caused by the "environmental" treaties the western barbarians forced the Africans to sign in Copenhagen and Paris. It's genocide. Is that what you want? Do you like dead Africans by the millions, mass sterilization in the west and bankster parasites ruling over the remaining pile of corpses? If you do, you should keep repeating their propaganda about anthropogenic global warming, climate change and the ozone layer. KILL THE POOR! KILL EVERYONE!
A few problems with the documentary: 1. Saying Bastimentos its the only place in the world where that frog lives is a lie. 2- Why would you go to an American Institution to ask about recommendations with Panama having so many qualified biologists? 3- Why not mention the projects working on education of trash management. 4- What about illegal collection for pet trade and Panama's past ghost farming problem? I am Panamanian and just opened a real frog breeding.
I'm feeling so sorry for the frogs coz the island was their natural habitat , but now its full of trash everywhere and I also feel sorry that I'm also a person who pollute the earth using plastic . the coffee shop owner is such a good person he's taking care of the nature and its beauty and thank you for this documentary as its is a step to protect nature and life .
Im glad im able to own 5 of these little gems, i got 2 captive breed unsexed frogs but saw the one call on day of purchase. a year later i have 3 little froglets in my viv, what stunners they are check my vids
I love the frogs, but............this would have been much more enjoyable without the loud and obnoxious background music. I never understand why documentaries do this............
I used to have nightmares as a child about red frogs when I was sick and I had high fevers my mom said I was halucinating my sister remembers that...I woke up the whole house because of red frogs
People who are not afraid of the red frogs have never had nightmares they died in a forest and were paraylized and eaten alive by worms on the forest floor horrifying dream as a child
Tourism is never "eco" and never "friendly" and certainly buggers up (to use a really non scientific description) the environment. One can argue about this until black and blue in the face. I have colleague scientists who are for it, saying you can have eco tourism and other who say no. At first i thought, what a bummer one can't walk all over the Galapagos any more (or rather should be) but then thinking, no this is the right thing if one is serious about preserving what is there as best once can.
People need to be listed threatened but some mutant frogs. If nobody was around I'd have a hard time not killing that kid who threatened to kill the frog for money. They just fucking suck and they'll only get worse.
It's a horrible situation but imagine how desperate the kid must have been for money. The same forces that are hurting the frogs are hurting the humans.