May Warn of Human Risk Frogs and toads are disappearing all over the world. No one knows all the reasons why. The stream at Fortuna.
Jaguars live here, and brilliant blue butterflies the size of small birds.
Pink flowers drop from the treetops and float in the clear pools, but to amphibian biologist Karen Lips the scene is strangely empty. We should be listening right now to hundreds and hundreds of colesthesus, these little, tiny, brown frogs with racing stripes that chatter away like tiny birds in the forest. There should be harlequin frogs bounding around on the shorelines, that we could pick up and they'd make little calls. Even though it looks wonderful, it looks like beautiful, upland old growth cloud forest, something's the matter. To her trained biologist's eye, it's like a crime scene after police have carried away the bodies.