![]() IVAN LOZANO ORTEGA: We are calling from the Bogota International Airport. Ivan Lozano Ortega is at his house in Bogota, Colombia, and he's getting ready to go to sleep when he gets a call. It was around 9:30 at night on a Sunday in 1998. ![]() SYLVIE DOUGLIS, BYLINE: This is PLANET MONEY from NPR. Help support Planet Money and get bonus episodes by subscribing to Planet Money+ in Apple Podcasts or at /planetmoney. It was produced by Willa Rubin with help from Emma Peaslee. This episode was hosted by Stan Alcorn and Sarah Gonzalez, and co-reported and written with Charlotte de Beauvoir. And he learns that it's not so easy to get a frog out of hot water. Today on the show, how Ivan tried to put an end to the poison frog black market, by breeding and selling frogs legally. And it put these endangered frogs at risk of going extinct. Tens of thousands of frogs were being poached out of the Colombian rainforest and sold to collectors all around the world by smugglers. Ivan had stumbled upon the poisonous frog black market. Hundreds of brightly colored, poisonous frogs. ![]() And he kept getting calls from the airport to come deal with. How lab breeding could put an end to frog smuggling : Planet Money Back in the 90s, Ivan Lozano Ortega was in charge of Bogota's wildlife rescue center.
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