by Susan | Aug 17, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, How You Can Help, Meet the Frogs, Rainforest Frogs
In the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve of Costa Rica, there were once so many harlequin frog species (Atelopus) that it was hard not to step on them when walking alongside streams. But during the 1980s and 1990s, most of these frogs vanished due to deadly infectious...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2009 | Frog Conservation, Learn about Frogs
I’ve just returned from vacation in Massachusetts, where I went whale watching off the coast with my family. On land, we also did some frog watching! My husband snapped a picture of a handsome frog in a little pond in the woods before it hopped off the lily pad....
by Susan | Aug 10, 2009 | Life Cycle of Frogs, Uncategorized
Susan and I are thrilled by the many entries we’ve received for the Frogs Are Green photo contest! If you haven’t sent in a photo, you still have time: the deadline for sending in entries is September 1st. So as you go off on vacation to the lake, woods,...
by Susan | Aug 7, 2009 | Chemicals in the Environment, Living a Frog-Friendly Life
Maybe it’s because I grew up on suburban Long Island, but I do have a fondness for golf courses. These open spaces, with their green rolling hills, seemed like “nature” to me when I was a kid. But golf courses are far from natural and they take their...
by Susan | Aug 4, 2009 | Literary Amphibians, Uncategorized
Continuing “Toad Week” at Frogs Are Green, I thought I’d write about literary toads. I couldn’t find many books with toad characters, except Frog’s best friend Toad in the classic Frog and Toad books, which I wrote about in an earlier...
