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Save The Frogs 2010 Spring Tour Dates
Dear Save The Frogs Supporter,
In an effort to raise awareness of the plight of amphibians and to promote the 2nd Annual Save The Frogs Day, I will be lecturing on the amphibian extinction crisis throughout California this spring. Most of these events are open to the public, so please pass this message on to your friends in California. You can learn more about each event by visiting:
http://savethefrogs.com/events
March 21st: Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Main Library
March 22nd: Watsonville, CA
Amphibian Conservation Summit
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
March 31st: Santa Cruz, CA
Ecology Action Headquarters
April 5th: Puerto Rico Radio WALO
This interview will be in Spanish (with English translations), and will be accessible live via streaming radio by clicking the "Audio en Vivo" link at the right side of the WALO Radio website.
April 7th: Santa Cruz, CA
Santa Cruz Public Library
April 10th: San Mateo, CA
Herp World Expo
April 11th: San Mateo, CA
Herp World Expo
April 17th: Santa Cruz, CA
Earth Day Santa Cruz 2010
April 18th: San Francisco, CA
California Academy of Sciences
April 22nd (Earth Day): San Francisco, CA
California Academy of Sciences
April 24th (Earth Day Observed): San Francisco, CA
California Academy of Sciences
April 30th (Save The Frogs Day!) - Watsonville, CA
Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve
We'll be announcing more events shortly!
Event details are at: http://savethefrogs.com/events
Later this year we will offer a training course for university students to enable them to give high-quality presentations on amphibian extinctions to high school and middle school students, thus dramatically increasing our ability to reach large numbers of students.
Save The Frogs is a grassroots effort: please help us fund this class and the related materials! Thanks!
Info Cards Now Available
These fantastic 4x6" info cards are a great way to help spread the word about amphibian extinctions. The front side of the card lists the primary threats to amphibians and five reasons amphibians are important. The back side lists 18 ways people can help SAVE THE FROGS! Cards are only $10 per set of 100, which helps us cover the printing costs.
Order the cards here.
Save The Frogs In The News
Next time you frequent the airports in Denver, Chicago, St. Louis or Detroit, you might see a Columbia Spotted Frog peering at you from a colorful Save The Frogs poster. Read Save The Frogs Advisory Committee Member Beth Pratt's recent Examiner article highlighting our efforts to prevent climate change and save Yellowstone's frogs:
http://bit.ly/yellowstone-climate-article
Thanks to all those Save The Frogs supporters who helped get these Public Service Announcements up!
You can learn about the effect of climate change on frogs on the Save The Frogs Climate Change webpage. You can also download this Climate Change Fact Sheet we prepared for the Prince's Rainforest Project.
The FrogBlog
The Recent News & Website Updates section of savethefrogs.com (formerly at the bottom of the homepage) will now be integrated into The FrogBlog, so please check the blog regularly to keep on top of important and timely frog activity. Other great reasons to check The FrogBlog often: job postings, stories from the field, great photos and more.
Check Out The FrogBlog Now!
And yes, the page does have an RSS feed.
Thanks to Save The Frogs Web Design Volunteers Scott Robinson and Wes Thompson for setting up the FrogBlog, and to Jeffrey Brossi for designing the cool banner.
Amazon Wish List
SAVE THE FROGS! now has a Wish List on Amazon.com. Please help us out by giving us the gift of a book...or better yet an Amazon Kindle device, which will allow us to significantly reduce the amount of paper we require to read books and other publications. These items would make great Save The Frogs Day gifts!
Register your Save The Frogs Day event!
If you have a frog-related activity planned for the 2nd Annual Save The Frogs Day, please be sure to register your event so we know what's happening and can keep you updated with important information! Also, we willl soon post a map of all the Save The Frogs Day events, and we want your event on the map.
If you don't yet have a Save The Frogs Day event planned, what are you waiting for?
We've got all the tools you need to create some frog conservation activity in your own town this SAVE THE FROGS DAY!
Have a great week!
Dr. Kerry Kriger
Save The Frogs
Founder, Executive Director & Ecologist
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