get poisoned and the rest of the frogs would be protected. After three weeks in the aquatic environment, the offspring are ready to leave and become terrestrial. During this period, the male fiercely defends his territory and tadpoles from foreign males. Conservation Threats P. bicolor currently faces a major threat of habitat loss. Significant drivers of habitat loss include deforestation, cattle grazing, mining, pollution, and illegal crop spraying. Deforestation of the rain forest most directly impacts P. bicolor as the process contributes to exposing the frogs that live along the floor of the forest. The removal of trees makes the rainforest floor dry, hot, and without available food for the frogs. Additionally, cattle grazing and unsustainable farming practices cause harm to the land. Again, these processes stress the environment and cause potential harm to the frogs. Mining, pollution, and illegal crop spraying influence the environment as well. Strip mining destroys the landscape, trees, plants, and soil of the rainforest. The loosened topsoil is unfit to host any life, which further harms the frogs as there is no natural cover along these areas to protect the frogs or to lay eggs. Pollution causes death of the frogs as pollutants from industrialization and urbanization of the rainforest are toxic to the frogs. Invasive species such as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, endanger the frogs, too. Bd causes the disease chytridiomycosis, a very lethal amphibian skin disease found in many parts of the world, including South America. Bd is an invasive aquatic fungi that causes the skin infections on frogs. The fungi can live in soil or water. When in aquatic environments, Bd spores are motile. The presence of terrestrial and aquatic forms of the fungi present a great threat to P. bicolor. Bd infects the keratinized skin of amphibians and slowly hardens these areas. Since the skin is physiologically active in maintaining a regulated electrolyte balance, respiratory gas exchange, and osmotic imbalance, Bd prevents these vital functions and eventually kills the organism. Efforts There are currently limited conservation efforts in place across the world. Because P. bicolor are similar to P. terribilis, many conservation efforts are applicable to both species. Captive-breeding programs have appeared across the world. In South America, Tatamá National Park in Colombia contains and protects hundreds of endangered and endemic species, including P. bicolor. In the United States, the Baltimore National Aquarium has been engaged in a captive-breeding program. While