Surveying 3 potential important bird areas
Project

Conservation of the Togo Slippery Frog

Duration
2010 - 2011
Location
Ghana
Species protected
Bobiri Reed Frog Hyperolius bobirensis
Togo Slippery Frog Conraua derooi

Project objectives

The long-term objectives of this project are to increase the specie’s population by at least 50% in two years, improve its status to Endangered in five years, and to train and equip 20 young conservationists to protect the species by July 2011.

Furthermore, results will influence the decision to upgrade the protection status of the study site from Forest Reserve to National Park and development of the first Amphibian Conservation Action Plan for Ghana.

This project is implemented by the Conservation Leadership Programme.

Threats

Habitat loss & degradation

Poaching