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Rachel Hopkins
My name is Rachel Hopkins, I’m a 13 girl who loves frogs. I want to make sure these wonders of nature survive the 21st century, so I've been working hard for the past year to bring awareness of the amphibian extinction issue to the citizens of North Carolina. Last April I got my entire school involved with Save The Frogs Day and raised $1,200 for SAVE THE FROGS!. I've spoken on local radio and in front of my County's Commissioners. Last month at my request Governor Bev Perdue officially designated April 28, 2012 as Save The Frogs Day in the state of North Carolina. Amphibians are having trouble not just in North Carolina but all around the world, and SAVE THE FROGS! is our best hope to save them. If everyone does their part, I know we will succeed.
Please show your compassion for our planet and its creatures, and donate to SAVE THE FROGS!
Every dollar makes a big difference.
Thanks, and happy new year!
Rachel Hopkins
"Dear Rachel, First let me say how wonderful it is to hear from a young person so enthusiastic and dedicated to helping our precious wildlife. I am amazed at your can do spirit and at what you have achieved already to help Save the Frogs. You are an example to all your peers. Rest assured, I will continue to help in my very modest way with my monthly donations and sending links for save the frogs to my friends. I hope you and all of yours have a very wonderful and happy new year. :) "
--Vincent Connolly
"Rachel THANK YOU so much! You are so right! We all need to help save our tiny friends. And we need to do so by informing as many people as we can about their struggle to survive. Thank you for doing your part; And such a big part at that!! I do support Save The Frogs, but because you have done such a great job I'll send another donation on your behalf!"
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Buck OBrien, Capon Bridge, WV
"Dearest Rachel, That was an excellent passion you had for frogs and I commend your courage, keep up the good work. I am also creating awareness over here in this part of the world Nigeria particularly in Cross River State' Wishing you a prosperous new year 2012.
Regards. Mbeson"
Alex DeMar, IL - 13 years old
Alex had his Bar Mitzvah on June 21st and it was a huge success. His theme was reptiles and amphibians and the image below adorned the venues in poster size. He collected money for SAVE THE FROGS!, got two matching offers on the roughly $500 he collected then added over $1000 from his Bar Mitzvah gifts. The total he collected for SAVE THE FROGS is just under $2500! Nice work Alex!
Avalon in Florida
Congratulations to 10-year old Avalon Theisen, the SAVE THE FROGS! August 2011 Student of the Month. Avalon is doing great things for the frogs. Avalon won our 2010 Nate The Newt Award for Amphibian Conservation ($500!), organized a Save The Frogs Day event that 100 people attended, and recently won 1st place in the 2011 International Eco Hero Awards! Today her efforts were featured on the front page of her local newspaper, helping to educate thousands in her community about the plight of amphibians. Keep up the great work Avalon!
Great American Teach In November 18th, 2010: "Avalon presented "Citizen Science of Frogs" to 3 elementary classes and handed out Save the Frogs! cards to the students. Thanks again for the great resources!" -- Deborah Theisen
Avalon met with amphibian biologist Dr. David Bradford at US EPA offices in Las Vegas in January 2012:
DC Area Frog Legs Protesters
These eight kids from DC and Charlottesville helped educate adults about the plight of amphibians and the problems associated with the frog legs trade. Great job!
Frog Hollow Preschool - North Liberty, IA
Huge thanks to Frog Hollow Preschool for raising $559 to help SAVE THE FROGS!
Adam from Portland - Age 9
Green Frog member Adam Clayton raised $104.50 for SAVE THE FROGS! He also started a frog club and got his school's principal to hang a SAVE THE FROGS! poster in the school hallway.
Kathryn - Age 9
Kathryn worked two days and raised $35 for SAVE THE FROGS!
Kalea and Molly - Age 11
Big thanks to Kalea and Molly from Moss Beach, CA! They held a bake sale, educated their community about protecting frogs, and raised $70 for SAVE THE FROGS!
Sisalee Boots - Age 11
Hi, my name is Sisalee I am eleven years old. My friends Fiona, Rachelle, and Sandra plus my cousin Dawn and step brother Marcus are planning a bake sale at school to help your cause. We are also speaking with the Kindergarden, 1st and 2nd grade teachers to for us to talk with their classes about saving frogs and what we can do to help them. We picked to talk with them because we know that a lot of them love frogs.
We are going to show them about frogs and what is happening to them plus all their body part deformations. I am also writing an essay about frogs as well as a speech that will be given to the 3rd 4th and the rest of the fifth grade. We're making flyers and posters for around the school too. We are trying the ways you say we can help and trying to get others to help too. All of the people that are working with me are dedicated and love all animals know that what every day humans do horrible to the planet I'm trying to make a difference to our lives and the frogs plus other animals. I hope we help you and this is only the beginning of our SAVE THE FROGS act. People say I am a good strong writer and I hope to use that someday. I care a lot for every animal and I can make that clear with in a minute of speaking with someone.
Once in fourth grade we had a debate and after i was done say what i wanted to say for my team no one in the class ever again questioned my love and loyalty to animals, not even the boys who were mean to me. Thank you for reading my email.
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So I've got fabulous news, all the First Grade, Second Grade , and Third Grade has been talked to by us 'bout SAVE THE FROGS! Some weren't to thrilled to be talked to by six Fifth Grades about frogs but most of them said they loved it and wanted to help anyway they could. :) So Marcus, Dawn, Sandra, Fiona, Rachelle, and I have been thinking of ways to have them help at school. I was told to ask you guys if you had any ideas I think they just wanna just back to their lives. But at the same time they all see how important that we TRY to save frogs. I just told them we're not trying to save frogs we ARE saving them.
Lillian Crossman, Canada
Lillian's hard work paid off:
"Good news! I have raised over $250 for save the frogs! with $100 of the money i will get a save the frogs red frog membership and with about $30 i'm going to get a bunch of wristbands and pins to advertise save the frogs! i guess this goes to show what six hours of lemonade stands every day can do!"
Thanks Lillian and friends!
Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Nature Club
Thanks to Debbie Tully and the Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Nature Club in Melbourne, Australia for raising $100 for SAVE THE FROGS!.
Mill City Elementary School - Dalton, PA
Thanks to Mrs. Yanchick's 3rd grade class for raising $36 for SAVE THE FROGS!.
Autumn H. - Woodstock, IL - 4th Grade
Autumn says "Kids can make a difference!". Thanks to Autumn for raising $100 for SAVE THE FROGS!
George Washington Middle School, Alexandria, VA
Big thanks to the Animal Activist Club (Grades 6,7 & 8), who raised $104 for SAVE THE FROGS! by selling SAVE THE FROGS! wristbands at their school.
Thomas Ferguson - Southend Primary School, UK
Save the Frogs
Go and save the frogs
green or brown colouration
very wide mouth or warts and ridges on skin
go and save frogs.
Go and save frogs
green and black, wet, webbed feet,
so wonderful.
Go and save frogs
red and blue with black eyes
so big with short limbs that jump very high.
Go and save frogs
Black spots on back
with green skin and black bands on legs.
Go and save the frogs
bright bulging eyes
long powerful hind legs
that spring high in the air.
GO AND SAVE FROGS!
Vanessa B. - 10 yrs old - Wallingford, CT
Vanessa raffled off a webkinz frog at Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School and raised $75 for SAVE THE FROGS!. Thanks Vanessa and Wintergreen!
Noe Ramirez - 14 yrs old - Arlington, VA
Catherine Flickner - 17 yrs old - Alexandria, VA
Serenity - 10 yrs old - Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
I love frogs but sadly they are going extinct. It’s our job to stop this nonsense that we are creating. With just enough people we can save the frogs and other amphibians out there.
Frogs are being threatened by pollution, infectious diseases, habitat loss, invasive species, climate change, over-harvesting to the pet and food trades. If we continue to let this happen amphibian species will continue to vanish and it could get so bad that there are irreversible solutions and could affect our earth’s ecosystems.
Why frogs you ask, well the adult frog eats insects that can give us diseases or fatal illnesses, like mosquitoes or malaria. The tadpole (baby frog) keeps waterways clear by eating that icky stuff called algae. Frogs serve as important food to such predators as monkeys, dragonflies, fish, snakes and birds. Do you see why frogs are important? Guess what, that was only a few reasons!!
Frogs even help us humans with our health. You see they produce skin secretions that can help human health through their use in pharmaceuticals. Every time a frog species dies so does its promise to improve the human medicine. Do you see why we need to save the frogs?
There are 6,317 amphibian species and 5,576 are frogs and toads and 566 are newts and salamanders and 175 of them are caecilians.
Did you know that the largest frog is the Goliath Frog, which can be as long as a foot and can weigh up to 6.6 lbs. The world’s smallest frog is the Brazilian Frog, which is only 0.6in when it’s fully-grown. Have you ever seen a six-legged frog? It may sound weird but a lot of frogs are malformed. How sad!
A lot of people have already made their donation, now you can too. Go to www.savethefrogs.com and find ways that you can help.
We can make a difference one hop at a time!
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Marisa - 12 yrs old - Tiffin, Ohio
Onawa - 10 years old - Michigan
Onawi set up an info table at school, distributed informational flyers, and raised $31 for SAVE THE FROGS!.
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