Conservation Connection: Panamanian Golden Frogs

The Detroit Zoological Society engages in conservation work on all seven continents to ignite positive change for animals and nature. We protect some amazing amphibians by participating in a collaborative, captive breeding program that is the last hope for Panamanian golden frogs’ survival. The Zoo maintains a captive “assurance population” of this critically endangered species, which ensures against extinction with the hope that they can survive in the wild again someday. Since 2015, the DZS team has made several trips to Panama to help set up research and breeding centers and facilitate future reintroductions of Panamanian golden frogs.