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class="content__text" The Golden Toad—one of our #LostLegends—is believed to have gone extinct in 1989. However, two years after the last official sighting of the species in Monteverde, Costa Rica, Eladio Cruz, a local naturalist, saw some of the vibrant toads in a remote area of the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. No one has seen any of the toads since. But no one had ever returned to the spot high in the mountains of Monteverde to see if by some miraculous chance there were still Golden Toads living there. In 2021, 30 years after Eladio came across the Golden Toads, he returned to the same spot with a small expedition team and filmmaker Trevor Ritland to see if perhaps some Golden Toads had managed to beat the odds and had survived a combination of climate change and the chytrid fungus affecting their cloud forest habitat. Eldorado II: The Eternal Forest follows Eladio as he returns to the spot where he saw a species that has become a legend. (Read more at our link in bio) 📷 1 : A Golden Toad. (Photo by Martha Crump) 📷 2: Golden Toads during breeding season in the 1980s in Monteverde, Costa Rica. (Photo by Martha Crump) 📷 3: Eladio Cruz (center) talking with Luis Solano and Mark Wainwright during an expedition to a remote area where Eladio saw Golden Toads in 1991. (Photo by Trevor and Kyle Ritland) 📷 4: A stream in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest. (Photo by Trevor and Kyle Ritland) 📷 5: A photo slide of a Golden Toad taken by Martha Crump during field research in the 1980s. (Photo by Trevor and Kyle Ritland) #Amphibians #Toads #CostaRica #CloudForest #Monteverde #lostspecies

February 15, 2023