A brief sample of the work 📷 that our co-founder and director of photography Lucas Bustamante has been doing in the #Galapagos 🏝 during the last year, partnering with @SaveGalapagos and the Parque Galápagos bit.ly/TH_Galapagos_C…

For #FFNnominee2021 Alejandro Arteaga, every species has a role to play in the intricate web of life. With his organisation Tropical Herping, Alejandro is preserving tropical reptiles and amphibians through tourism, photography, research and education! Read more on our website!

his year, our team is opening the opportunity for you to join our field expeditions🦎🌿📷. Join the next Expeditions in the link bellow 👇🏽 bit.ly/TH_Expeditions #TropicalHerping #TH #Conservation #Science #Photography #WildlifePhotography #naturephotography #nature #willdife

Today, you can become the guardian of these species: 1) Stenocercus puyango 2)Bothrocophias campbelli 3)Anolis transversalis 4)Uracentron flaviceps By adopting any of these species🐍, you'll become the official protector in the species' online data-sheet bit.ly/AdoptAReptile

Today, you can become the official “guardian” of the 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗗𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗳-𝗜𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗻𝗮🦎(𝘌𝘯𝘺𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘴). A diurnal sunlight-loving 🌞lizard that inhabits the Chocoan lowlands🌳in western Ecuador. bit.ly/SupportReptile… ©2021 Tropical Herping.

Happy World #Frog day!🐸 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Here some frog species from Ecuador 🇪🇨, a country smaller than Arizona, holds 10% of the global's 🌎 frog diversity. Today more than ever is a perfect reminder to protect the frogs and their habitats during the whole year #WorldFrogDay

Happy #EarthDay The theme for #EarthDay2021 is #RestoreOurEarth♻️. Climate change 🌪 & other environmental degradations have broken our natural systems, leading to new diseases as well as a breakdown of economy🛑 It’s time to take action and do our part: earthday.org/toolkit-earth-…

The "extinct" #Fernandina Giant-#Tortoise 🐢is confirmed to be rediscovered after been disappeared for more than a century! 🤩 This week, the genetic analysis 🧬 confirmed that the specimen found in 2009 is an authentic Fernandina Giant-Tortoise! 🥳 Photos by Lucas Bustamante

Grandes noticias: Dos especies de lagartijas 🦎, consideradas posiblemente extintas por la IUCN, están documentadas por primera vez en Ecuador 🇪🇨! Tropical Herping ZGAP_e.V AMARUBIOPARQUECUENCA 📷Fotos de José Vieira y Alejandro Arteaga tropicalherping.com/articles/two_l…

Search teams with Tropical Herping found these species for the after exploring the Andes many times in the past. Read about the emotional first moments they saw them.

Great news: Two species of #lizards 🦎, deemed possibly extinct by the IUCN, are documented for the first time in #Ecuador 🇪🇨! The Climbing Whorltail Iguana hadn’t been seen since 1899, and the Orcés Blue Whiptail hadn’t been seen since 1959 😱 tropicalherping.com/articles/two_l…

Happy Holidays 🐸🎄 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ For the TH family, 2021 has been a very productive year, and we want to THANK YOU for making it happen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Let's team up to make 2022 an even greater and more resounding success! For us, for our planet and all its creatures🍃

Which one is your favorite #Galapagos Iguana? 🤔 Check out our updated calendar for 2023 and 2024 at the following link ☝🏼️ tropicalherping.com/Links.html Photo by TH 📸 Lucas Bustamante #Ecuador #Travel #bucketlist

Happy New Year #2023 🎊to all of you! We want to THANK YOU 🙏🏽 for your support and interest in nature, conservation, traveling 🧳 and photography 📸 during this year Always remember to stay hoppy, and see you soon in the jungle shorturl.at/boz04 The Tropical Herping team

Our research on #Bothriechis has been published! We describe five #newspecies and revalidate three. More than 100 people contributed to this work, but I want to thank in particular Casey Klebba and Aga Khan Development Network, to whom we dedicate two of the species. Press release 👉 shorturl.at/rzOQT

I am thrilled to announce that the #ReptilesofEcuador book is now a reality! We have received the first 300 copies, which will be distributed to the people who have most loyally supported the project from the start. Claim your copy at 👉 reptilesofecuador.com/support_projec…

277 of the first 300 hardcover copies of #ReptilesofEcuador book have been distributed to our most loyal supporters. Claim one of the remaining 23 here 👉 reptilesofecuador.com

Thanks to the Burgers' Zoo we will soon be embarking on the fourth census of endangered #amphibians at the #ArlequinReserve, focused primarily on the Mindo Harlequin Toad, but also on other threatened frogs such as the Pinocchio Rainfrog (#Pristimantis appendiculatus).

Se recomienda discreción… Cuidado con el perro! 😱😱😱

The invasive Flowerpot #BlindSnake (#Indotyphlops braminus) 🐍 is reported for the first time in #Ecuador. Full article at 👉 doi.org/10.15560/21.2.… Research by Eduardo Zavala and Alejandro Arteaga with support from Khamai Foundation.