New Guatemalan Reserve to Protect Threatened Birds, Endangered Frogs, and a Blue Viper

[American Bird Conservancy]

Conservationists are celebrating the Guatemalan Government's formal establishment of a new 47K protected area in Guatemala that will safeguard some of the country's most endangered wildlife. The reserve is home to three species of threatened birds, a host of migratory birds that breed in the United States, a dozen globally threatened frogs and salamanders, five found nowhere else in the world and the rare Merendon palm-pitviper, an arboreal, blue-toned venomous snake.

 

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