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Alejandro Arteaga serves as president and CEO of Khamai Foundation since 2022. In addition to his career as biologist and photographer, in 2009 he co-founded Tropical Herping. Arteaga is author of three books (including Reptiles of Ecuador) and 28 scientific articles. He has discovered and described 35 new species to science and raised funds to save 255 hectares of rainforest in Ecuador. Alejandro’s research is focused primarily on systematics and discovery of new species of tropical amphibians and reptiles. He is currently leading a project to discover the luminous lizards of Ecuador.

Alejandro Arteaga showing the ventral aspect of a poison frog
Alejandro Arteaga at the AMNH
Image showing Alejandro Arteaga holding a newly discovered species of ground snake in Ecuador
Expedition team to Yasuní River, Ecuador
Alejandro Arteaga approaching a sleeping sloth in Bocas del Toro, Panama
Alejandro Arteaga holding a frog in Tambopata, Peru
Image showing Alejandro Arteaga holding a coral snake in Ecuador
Alejandro Arteaga swabbing a frog for chytrid fungus in Sangay National Park, Ecuador
Alejandro Arteaga and Valeria Sorgato during an expedition to the unexplored Nangaritza river, Ecuador
Image showing Alejandro Arteaga during an expedition to Reventador Volcano, Ecuador
Image showing Alejandro Arteaga holding an eyelash viper in Darién, Panama
Image showing Alejandro Arteaga in the field during an expedition to Reventador Volcano, Ecuador