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After a global public vote, this new Ecuadorian frog species’ name is officially Rana Cohete Resistencia de Intag, which means “Intag’s Resistance Rocket Frog” in English. The name represents the fight local communities have been waging to protect Intag Valley and its biodiversity from large-scale copper mining projects. The rocket frog was discovered in 2019 by @centrojambatu in the Llurimagua mining concession in Ecuador’s Intag Valley. In February, a judge ruled that the Llurimagua mining project, which will destroy the Critically Endangered frog’s only home, did not violate local communities’ constitutional right to consultation or the rights of nature, and could move ahead. A legal team representing local communities is now appealing the ruling. We must hold Ecuador’s courts accountable for supporting the country’s rights of nature, as the judicial system did recently in the case of Los Cedros Biological Reserve, and put an end to the threat of mining in Intag Valley. #SalvemosIntag Photo by Jambatu Center for Amphibian Research and Conservation

May 24, 2022