This species can provide valuable medicinal compounds. Scientists have discovered that Epipedobatidae secretions might be used as a sedative are more potent than morphine. Tiger-leg leaf frogs have tiger stripes on their limbs. Barred-leaf frogs' light build and long legs help it move along the delicate plants of the Amazon Basin. All of these frogs, along with many other plants and animals, are disappearing from the earth.
Tree frogs are very sensitive to changes of the environment.
Because of this, they are disappearing faster than most other wild life. Some become extinct before they are even discovered. Still others are vanishing right in front of us. Tree frogs are important to the ecosystem. To reduce the depletion of tree frogs we must begin to watch what we do to our environment.