Save the frogs
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With this book, readers can become frog experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton!ĭid you know that some frogs can leap twenty times the length of their own bodies? How about that the largest frog in the world weighs more than a chihuahua? Or that frogs drink through their skin and not through their mouths? “Atrazine weakens amphibians’ immune systems, and can cause hermaphroditism and complete sex reversal in male frogs at concentrations as low as 2.5 parts per billion,” Kriger told have hopped and croaked their ways into kids' hearts. Kerry Kriger, executive director of frog-focused NGO Save the Frogs! and creator of Save the Frogs Day, says that Atrazine is an important target in the attempt to save amphibians worldwide, which are currently facing extinction rates that are estimated at 200 times the average. () This year’s Save the Frogs Day (Friday, April 29th) is focusing on a campaign to ban the herbicide Atrazine in the US with a rally at the steps of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Save the Frogs Day focuses on banning Atrazine in US The frogs will be bred in captivity as an insurance policy against extinction. Conservationists have set up an an emergency conservation measure to capture wild frogs from infected areas and safeguard them in captivity until the disease is controlled or at least better understood. More than 200 species have gone silent, while scientists estimate one third of the more than 6,500 known species are at risk of extinction. The reasons are many: habitat destruction, pollution from pesticides, climate change, invasive species, and the emergence of a deadly and infectious fungal disease.
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() In forests, ponds, swamps, and other ecosystems around the world, amphibians are dying at rates never before observed. Scientists scramble to save dying amphibians White Spotted Reed Frog (Heterixalus alboguttatus)įrog shadow seen through a sunlit leaf in New Guineaīlue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus) Yellow-Banded Poison Frog (Dendrobates leucomelas) Monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) in Peru Masked frog (Smilisca phaeota) croaking in Costa Rica Strawberry poison-dart frog in a bromeliad
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Green and black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) Three-striped Poison dart frog (Epipedobates trivittatus) in Peru Mother Panamanian golden frog with green baby in a captive breeding facility at the Bronx Zooįlying tree frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) in West Kalimantan, Indonesiaīlueberry poison arrow frog (Dendrobates pumilio) in Panama Red-and-green poison arrow frog (Dendrobates granuliferus) in Costa RicaĬlown tree frog (Dendropsophus leucophyllatus) in the Colombian Amazon Gladiator tree frog (Hyla rosenbergi) in Costa Rica In recognition of Save the Frogs Day, here is a collection of frog photos taken ’s Rhett Butler. This year the event focuses on Atrazine, a commonly used pesticide which triggers reproductive problems in frogs and humans. To raise awareness of the plight of amphibians, in 2009 biologist Kerry Kriger declared April 28th “Save the Frogs Day”. Worryingly the outbreak of a deadly fungal disease, chytridiomycosis, is spreading throughout the tropics leaving millions of victims, adding to the onslaught of challenges already facing amphibians: habitat destruction, climate change, invasive species, pollution, and overexploitation as food and for the pet trade. More than one third of the world’s 6,500 known species are threatened with extinction, while at least 200 species have gone extinct over the past 20 years. Amphibians - cold-blooded animals that include frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians - are in big trouble.