by Susan | Dec 13, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, Environmental Health, Frog Conservation, frog gifts, Frog People, FrogBlogRoll, How You Can Help, Learn about Frogs, Literary Amphibians, Living a Frog-Friendly Life
At this time of year, we’d like to stop and say thank you to all the visitors we’ve had, and to those who’ve joined our cause. While you’re shopping for loved ones in the next week or so, we hope you’ll remember all the great...
by Susan | Dec 1, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, frog exhibits, Frogs and the Rainforest, How You Can Help, Learn about Frogs, People Helping Frogs and Toads
In case you’re planning a holiday visit to “the City” (what we locals call Manhattan), we want to remind you to go see the exhibit Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History before it closes January 3. This traveling exhibit...
by Susan | Nov 24, 2009 | Amphibian habitat loss, Climate change and frogs, Deforestation and frogs, Frog Conservation, frog gifts, Frogs and the Rainforest, How You Can Help, Learn about Frogs, Rainforest Frogs
We have a lot to be grateful for at FROGS ARE GREEN. We’ve received over 10,000 visitors since we started the blog back in May. We are so grateful for your comments and for your participation in our blog. As a token of our thanks, Susan designed a poster of our...
by Susan | Oct 29, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs
This past Sunday, my husband and I went for long hike in Harriman State Park in New York. In late March and early April, the sound of the spring peepers is deafening. But the other day we heard only one or two peepers. I did a little research to find out what happens...
by Susan | Oct 3, 2009 | Climate change and frogs, Deforestation and frogs, Frogs and the Rainforest
We received a new video from the Prince’s Rainforests Project of Sting singing “Message in a Bottle,” his own personal SOS to the world about the destruction of the rainforests. The Prince’s Rainforest SOS Campaign is their final push to ensure...
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...