We have verified that the populations of amphibians which breed in this environment are strongly driven by climatic conditions. However, climate change has very often dried up the temporary pools, which has not allowed enough time for the development of tadpoles. Almost all the tadpoles perished in the last breeding season. Continuous unfavorable climatic conditions over just a few years can put many frog species in danger. Since the Brazilian environmental laws have failed to protect one of the most important ecosystems of the planet, something else has to be done to save it.
Environmental education seems to be the right way.
We started an environmental education project in which frogs play the main role. Despite their importance, not much attention has been given to anuran amphibians due mainly to their historic bad reputation. For the purpose of preservation, six years ago we bought a 70,000 m 2 plot of land containing original forest in the Atlantic rainforest domain, northern Santa Catarina State, Brazil. We have taken detailed pictures of all those species we found. The number of species occurring there might be greater.