Natural History Wanderings

SAVE THE FROGS! has moved its World Headquarters to Berkeley!

Open House at the SAVE THE FROGS! Education Center
Friday, December 13, 2013  5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
2524 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, ca (map) We’re next door to the Sierra Club building!

SAVE THE FROGS! and our neighbors are opening their doors to the public for a night of fun and festivities! Join SAVE THE FROGS! in celebrating the season with food, drinks, live music and a free raffle. Bring your friends or meet new ones from the Ecology Center, Sierra Club, Golden Gate Audubon, Yoga Room and more. You will have the opportunity to visit the SAVE THE FROGS! office, speak one-on-one with staff, and purchase some fabulous frog-friendly merchandise!

SAVE THE FROGS! is the world’s leading amphibian conservation organization. Our mission is to protect amphibian populations and to promote a society that respects and appreciates nature and wildlife. We work in California, across the USA, and around the world to prevent the extinction of amphibians, and to create a better planet for humans and wildlife.

Amphibian populations have been rapidly disappearing worldwide and nearly one-third of the world’s amphibian species are on the verge of extinction. Up to 200 species have completely disappeared since 1979. Frogs and other amphibians face an array of threats from climate change to habitat destruction; pesticide use; over-collection for frog legs and dissections; invasive species; and infectious diseases spread by human activity. Frogs eat mosquitoes; provide us with medical advances; serve as food for birds, fish and monkeys; and their tadpoles filter our drinking water. Plus frogs look and sound cool, and kids love them — so there are lots of reasons to save the frogs!