The Frogs Still Need Your Help!

With the hot summer months fast approaching, Amphibian Ark, the international organization helping to keep endangered amphibian species afloat (whose efforts we profiled here), needs your helps now more than ever. They've just embarked on an ambitious new grassroots initiative, called "5 for frogs," to get more people involved with their efforts and raise awareness; it's part of their broader "50 ways to save amphibians" initiative.

Like many of their endangered brethren, a large proportion of amphibian species, whose natural habitats have been especially impacted by the anthropogenic activities and global warming, could go extinct over the coming years -- perhaps up to 50% of them. Recently, they teamed up with the Amphibian Project, a like-minded outfit, to organize a fund-raising drive meant to help save the Large-crested toad (i.e. Bufo cristatus for the science buffs in the audience), one of the planet's most endangered amphibians.

Jeff Corwin and Jean-Michele Cousteau (see above video) have also lent their considerable imprimatur to help support AArk's first frog naming-rights auction, which will end on May 31. The winning bidder will win the naming rights to a newly discovered "walking frog" species, indigenous to the Andes Mountains in Ecuador.

So, please: get involved -- picking even one of the "50 ways to save amphibians" will make a big difference -- and help make this the year we save amphibians from the brink of extinction.

Via ::Frog Matters: Name the walking frog, save a species (blog)

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