Selling $600 frogs to save them from poachers

QUITO, Ecuador - Poachers in Ecuador have long known the hefty prices their country's rare frogs can fetch. But now environmentally conscious companies are starting to sell the amphibians too - to try to save them from the black market and threatened extinction.

In San Rafael, just outside the capital Quito, the scientific company Wikiri is raising 12 species of frog. Some are native only to Ecuador, while others are at risk at disappearing from their natural habitat elsewhere.

After being raised in hundreds of terrariums, they are sent to Canada, the United States, Japan and various European countries for up to $600 each.