Celebrate the ‘hoppiest’ day of 2016
Leap Day for Frogs is an opportunity to increase awareness around the importance of frogs, and to remove the negative stigma and superstitions that surround these fascinating creatures.
TODAY is World Wetlands Day, and the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Threatened Amphibian Programme is embarking on an exciting project to clear alien invasive vegetation from four priority wetlands within the greater Durban area.
Sixty-four local community members have been employed to work on this initiative, most of whom started work this week.
The remainder will soon complete their training for alien plant identification and clearing methods facilitated by project partner, WESSA.
This project will assist in rehabilitating key habitats for the critically-endangered Pickersgill’s reed frog.
You don’t have to be a scientist to save frogs. The Endangered Wildlife Trust invites all animal lovers to join in celebrating the fourth annual Leap Day for Frogs, a national day of awareness and celebration of frogs, occurring on 27 February.
Amphibians are among the most endangered species on earth, with 43 percent of the species populations declining globally.
Around 120 species of frogs call South Africa home, of which many are endangered. South Africa’s smallest frog is also one of its most threatened.
The appropriately named micro frog, which only grows to a maximum length of 18 millimetres, is critically endangered, and our largest species, the giant bullfrog which reaches 25 centimetres and weighs in at 1.4 kilograms, has already lost up to 80 percent of its habitat.
Visit www.leapdayforfrogs.org.za for more froggy facts and how you can participate in Leap Day for Frogs 2016.
