Atrazine turns male frogs into females — and it’s on our food and in our tap water: so we want it banned! These two-sided 4×6″ info cards are a great way to help spread the word about Atrazine. We are certain that the EPA will ban Atrazine…but they will not do so until we have an educated, informed public whose voice is more powerful than that of the multi-billion dollar pesticide companies. Distribute these cards and help spread the word.

Order atrazine info cards here.

Known to the state of California to cause cancer and/or reproductive defects, Methyl Iodide is a harmful pesticide currently approved for use on strawberries. In Santa Cruz County, these strawberry fields surround the last remaining habitat of the Santa Cruz Long-Toed Salamander, one of the world’s most endangered salamanders. Read SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger’s letter to the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors asking them to ban methyl iodide.

Download this hour long radio interview of SAVE THE FROGS! Founder Dr. Kerry Kriger on Food Integrity Now, discussing Atrazine, frog legs, chytrid fungus, dissections, politics and more. Listen to lots of other interviews at:

http://savethefrogs.com/audio/#interviews

Syngenta (the world’s largest pesticide company and producers of Atrazine) is stepping up their efforts to spread their disinformation and pro-pesticide propaganda. They or the lobbying firms that represent them are now buying high priced, top-of-the-page Google Adwords for the search terms ‘Save The Frogs’ and ‘Save the Frogs Day’. The ads link to sites that attempt to persuade the public that Atrazine is “Safe For Wildlife”.

Syngenta realizes the only thing that stands between us getting Atrazine banned is how successfully we educate the Americans about the harm the pesticide causes. That an 11 billion dollar company is watching SAVE THE FROGS! clearly demonstrates that our amphibian conservation efforts are producing results. BUT…it also means we are going to have to step up our efforts to overcome their disinformation campaigns!

To make matters worse, the US Congress is passing the most anti-environment legislation in years. A few weeks ago the Congress stripped Endangered Species Act protection from wolves (what animal group is next?). This coming Tuesday the House Agricultural Committee wild hold a hearing featuring invited speakers only, called “At Risk: American Jobs, Agriculture, Health and Species–the Costs of Federal Regulatory Dysfunction”. The English translation: some members of the House think that regulating deadly chemicals signifies a dysfunctional government.

This Friday we will march through the streets of DC to ensure that our politicians and the US public know we will not tolerate a government controlled by the pesticide companies. And we will grow this movement so that the anti-environment legislators never get voted in or appointed in the first place!

Please help us fight the world’s largest pesticide company by making a tax-deductible contribution to SAVE THE FROGS!

CNAH ANNOUNCEMENT
The Center for North American Herpetology
Lawrence, Kansas

http://www.cnah.org

29 June 2009

POST-DOC POSITION IN AMPHIBIAN ECOTOXICOLOGY

The Laboratory of Fish and Amphibian Ethology of the University of Liege (Belgium) is
accepting applications for a post-doctoral fellow for a 2-year project on evolutionary
ecology and ecotoxicology of frogs. This project will be based mainly on the egg and
tadpole stage, but will involve field sampling, young metamorphs, and breeding of adults.
This is a laboratory study mainly designed on behavioural patterns, using modern tools,
but also on morphology and life-history traits in the presence or absence of stressing
factors such as predators and pollutants. The post-doctoral fellow would be welcome to
adapt the design of the experiments in the framework of this topic. He/she will have two
controlled laboratory rooms available for his/her experiments and may supervise MSc
students.

The applications must contain a curriculum vitae with a complete list of publications, if
possible including the ISI impact factors (the list should include the references of
conference abstracts) and a letter of motivation. The deadline for the pre-selection is July
31, 2009. The selected candidate would be contacted in August to submit the final
proposal by early September. The post-doctorate, if accepted, would start on January 1,
2010. This post-doctoral position would be compensated by the FRS-FNRS (Belgian Funds
for Research) and be part of an on-going project with colleagues working on physiology
and chemistry.

The candidate needs to have completed a PhD thesis in a related topic, which he/she
would have presented less than 6 years ago. He/she must not have been a resident in
Belgium and he/she must speak English and/or French.

For further information, candidates should contact:

Mathieu Denoel, Ph. D.
Behavioural Biology Unit
University of Liege
22 Quai Van Beneden
B – 4020 Liege, Belgium
Mathieu.Denoel@ulg.ac.be

http://www.etho.ulg.ac.be/denoel/home.html