El Valle 2025 Golden Frog Festival

The Golden Frog Festival in El Valle Panama, will take place from August 13 to 16 in 2025. This year, the event is organized with the support of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI).

This species, a Panamanian environmental and cultural symbol, has not been recorded in the wild since 2009. Its population has declined dramatically due to chytridiomycosis, a fungus that has had serious negative effects on amphibians. 

The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project (PARC), created in 2009, is a collaboration between the New England Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Houston Zoo, Smithsonian National Zoo, and STRI, aimed at rescuing and establishing sustainable populations of this and other endangered amphibian species.