Inside Haiti’s biodiversity: Conservation keeps rare wildlife thriving at Pic Macaya Park

Inside Haiti’s biodiversity: Conservation keeps rare wildlife thriving at Pic Macaya Park

When the male spiny giant frog wants to be intimate with a female, he lets out five rising whistles that end with a semi-whistle. This charming mating call is only ever heard in the one place on earth where that type of amphibian exists: Hispaniola, the island that Haiti and the Dominican Republic share. Specifically, in Haiti’s Pic Macaya National Park.Ecologists with the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species who described the amphibian’s call ca…