Alejandro Arteaga at NFT gallery Alejandro Arteaga at NFT gallery

Alejandro Arteaga

Ecuadorian–Venezuelan entrepreneurial biologist, photographer serving at Khamai Foundation, an NGO seeking to restore the Amazon rainforest and promote biodiversity research. Founder of the Arteaga Species Discovery Fund, the world’s first fund devoted to the discovery of new species.

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Hope for the Mindo Toad: the finding of Soli-Tyrone

Five dazzling new species of eyelash vipers discovered

New species of coffee snake discovered in Ecuador

New video: Finding new species in the rainforest

Scientific publications by Alejandro Arteaga

Posters about the reptiles of Ecuador

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New video: graveyard sanctuaries of Ecuador

New video: 2023 expedition to Colombia

Cover of the Reptiles of Ecuador book

Reptiles of Ecuador

A book about Ecuador’s 494 species of reptiles.

Image showing biologist Alejandro Arteaga holding a centipede snake

Join Snake Census

Ecuador Rare Snake Census to honor the Year of the Snake.

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Sponsor new species

Support one of 12 projects on new species discovery.

Image showing the team of Khamai Foundation at the Pitalala Reserve

Pitalala Reserve

An urgent mission to save a 208-ha piece of the Amazon.

Image showing a Mindo Harlequin-Toad on a leaf

Mindo Toad project

Rapid-response project to save the Mindo Toad.

Image showing researcher Alejandro Arteaga holding a frog

Join the BioBlitz

BioBlitz to support the fundraiser of Khamai’s reserves.