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The Frog Chronicles
Second episode of a series of short conservation films commissioned by Conservation Leadership Programme on endangered Toad Skin Frog conservation efforts in the Western Ghats.
Client: Conservation Leadership Programme
Direction/Camera: Anirban Dutta Gupta/Priyanka Kuriakose
Format: HD PAL (Canon C300)
Duration: 11 Min
Date: 2016
The Toad Skin Frog is one of the most endangered frogs in the world and Arun and Sethu are in the forefront of the fight to protect them. This film follows there efforts to protect this amphibian by battling all odds. This film is part of a series of films on the projects funded by Conservation Leadership Programme.

Toad Skin Frog

Toad Skin Frog
Photo by Arun Kanagavel

Malabar Gliding Frog

Arun measuring the frog

Misty Munnar

Dotted Mountain

Polluted streams

Taking a workshop

Shooting in the rain

Tea plantations

Surreal trees

Frogs on a rock

Ex-situ conservation

The Team
(L-R) Arun Kanagavel, Sethu Parvathy, Priyanka Kuriakose

With Raka the dog

Searching for the frog

One more misty mountain

Interviewing Sethu

Shooting the frog

Interviewing Arun
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