Our team during the fieldwork (Eleonore, Sarah and Marina)
After our first site we continued our travel to Sucre and we went back to Cajamarca to monitor the Telmatobius simonsi population we found previously, we found some individuals and it seems that even there are very few, they are ok.
Telmatobius simonsi found in the streams
After that place we moved to Potosi area were we worked in several localities and some of them we found a lot of frogs, of a endemic frog (Hypsiboas alboniger) and also water frog (Telmatobius) in high numbers, it seems that at least this population are in good conditions and we think that this can be a good place to monitor these populations in the future.
Sarah taking notes of the individual she found
In some transects we found even hundreds of frogs and very active and also tadpoles and juveniles of different species. We took data of all the individuals we found and also Chytrid samples to be analyzed later to have a better idea how is the situation in Bolivia with this issue.
With all this information we will be able to prioritize our effort trying to protect the endangered species of Bolivian amphibians.
Hypsiboas alboniger a very common species in some localities
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