by Susan | Feb 12, 2010 | Frog Conservation, frog exhibits, How You Can Help, People Helping Frogs and Toads
While humans may need flowers, chocolate, and a candlelit dinner to get in the mood for love, amphibians have quite different requirements. The Bristol Zoo Garden in England has designed what it calls the AmphiPod to encourage frog love. The zoo opened this...
by Susan | Feb 9, 2010 | Amphibian habitat loss, Deforestation and amphibians, habitat loss, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Salamanders
We confess to paying most of our attention in our posts on Frogs Are Green to the stars of the amphibian world—frogs—and not so much on other amphibians. So to make up for that, we’d like to introduce you to Earth’s largest amphibian—the giant salamander...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2010 | How You Can Help, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, People Helping Frogs and Toads
Last summer we received a wonderful photograph taken by Mary Lascelles for our photo contest of a frog (whom she named Fritz) who hung out on the filter line in her pool sunning himself. Luckily, Fritz never fell in the pool. Unfortunately many frogs do fall in pools...
by Susan | Dec 20, 2009 | Amphibian habitat loss, Climate change and frogs, Environmental Health, Frog Conservation, frog gifts, Frog People, FrogBlogRoll, Frogs and the Rainforest, How You Can Help, Learn about Frogs, Life Cycle of Frogs, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, People Helping Frogs and Toads, Rainforest Frogs
As the year ends, and before we take a short break for the holidays, we’d like to show you the new poster we’ve created to promote our cause. Proceeds from the sale of the poster will go toward amphibian conservation organizations and toward developing...
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 16, 2009 | Environmental Health, How You Can Help, Living a Frog-Friendly Life, People Helping Frogs and Toads
The falling leaves drift by the window The autumn leaves of red and gold —from the song Autumn Leaves Recently we had a post about how “messy backyards” help wildlife. Since I wrote that post, I came across a wonderful article, “Leaf litter is...
