A 'One Plan' research approach on breeding ecology to inform the recovery of the Bleeding Toad

Species Conservation Fund
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© Sasi Kirono

Project aims

  • Collect baseline ecology data on Bleeding Toad and on other species in the Leptophryne genus

  • Design facilities for keeping and breeding representatives of the Leptophyrne genus

Results

  • Surveys undertaken in West Java for three Leptophryne species (including the target ASAP Species) have been used to help inform the design of an ex situ programme for Bleeding Toad

  • Established the Herpetological Conservation Breeding Laboratory at IPB University, Bogor, managed in collaboration with the Indonesia Herpetofauna Foundation

  • 20 Leptophyrne borbonica were collected from the wild for breeding trials, with the aim of eventually applying any protocols developed to the more threatened Bleeding Toad

Reports

 

AT A GLANCE

 

Organisation: Bogor Agricultural University

Country: Indonesia

Year project started: 2021

Species: Bleeding Toad

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