Punta Culebra Nature Center

This guide to the Punta Culebra Nature Center in Panama City centers on the golden frog, a small yellow amphibian Panamanians once believed brought good fortune to anyone who found it alive in the forest. It follows the legend behind that belief, the Indigenous gold pendants cast in its likeness, and the skin-eating fungus that swept through its mountain streams in the two-thousands. It traces what scientists have done since to keep the species going in tanks like the one in front of you.