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Froglife
gets snappy: Froglife is offering the public an opportunity to contribute to
a new booklet on making wildlife ponds by submitting photos of their ponds and pond wildlife. Entrants have a chance of winning one of five Froglife photography awards.
More
information.
Vacancies
at Froglife Froglife is recruiting a
second London Living Water Project Officer, a Conservation Assistant and a Senior
Ecologist to manage the Froglife Ltd ecological consultancy business. Find
out more...
Low-down
on adders
: In the
aftermath of a recent adder bite incident, Froglife and The Herpetological
Conservation Trust – both charities representing the
UK
’s amphibians and reptiles- commiserate with ten-year-old victim, Mollie
Hawker, and offer some advice to prevent recurrence of a similar event.
Read
the full story.
Health-checks
for the nation's frogs: Conservation
charities Froglife and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are
calling for the public to look out for and report cases of sick and dead
frogs – and other amphibians like toads and newts – in an attempt to
expand vital research into the state of the nation’s amphibians. Read
the full story.
Appeal
for dead amphibians! During the
summer months of 2008 Froglife is appealing for specimens of amphibians
which have died for any reason - disease or otherwise. If you are
willing to help out (this will mean storing dead amphibians in your freezer)
please get in touch
for more information.
Find out more about Disease.
Newts
hit jackpot! Froglife has
won lottery funding to trial its Outdoor Classroom resources at a site in
Peterborough – home to Europe’s largest Great Crested Newt colony. Find
out more...
Rare
albino tadpoles signal an unusual discovery:
Albino tadpoles have been
discovered in a garden in Carmarthenshire,
Wales
.
Froglife have called the finding highly unusual because at least four
separate blobs of albino spawn were found deposited in the pond. Find
out more...
Froglife
makes waves in the Capital:
London’s amphibians and reptiles are to get a helping hand thanks to a
groundbreaking initiative that will work to attract wildlife back into the
Capital’s ponds. Find
out more about Froglife's London Living Water Project...
Frogwatch
is back!
This
immensely popular national survey is helping us find out more about urban
distributions of widespread amphibians, discovering more about their
habits and about their garden preferences. The data also has wider
conservation significance, acting as control data for our Frog
Mortality Project. Get
frog-watching! >>>
The One Show celebrates Toad Patrolling! The
BBC’s One Show this week salutes the UK’s toad patrollers,
highlighting their commitment each spring in helping thousands of toads
cross busy roads, whilst contributing their data to important national
monitoring initiatives. The show will air on Thursday 17 April.
Do
your bit for snakes this spring! As
the last of the UK’s reptiles begin to stir after hibernation, now
is the time to start preparing your snake-friendly garden for the
upcoming year, say Froglife. 'Froglife
Advice Sheet: Conserving grass snakes'
Children
and teachers encouraged
to spawn-watch! Provided that the tadpoles are raised suitably (to ensure the
welfare of the animals) and are then released carefully in the same
pond from which they were taken, Froglife are keen to get across that
this is a great way for children and adults to experience and
learn more about the wonders of nature up-close.
For more information get your hands on a copy of the FSC’s ‘Guide
to Keeping Common Frog Tadpoles’
Stop
the swap! Froglife
is
advising the public that they should encourage amphibians naturally
into gardens rather than donate frogspawn to other gardeners this
spring. The advice is being given to
help national efforts to stop the spread of invasive pond plants,
animals and amphibian disease. More
details.
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