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I think I was drawn to them because they were totally unique.

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There's nothing else like a frog, everywhere you go, a person knows a frog.

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I was very fascinated by them from a very early age.

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I used to keep them in my bedroom. I had more frogs in there than in the rest of Scotland.

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I began collecting them as fast as I could catch them and before I knew it I had hundreds in buckets.

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I was fascinated by the diversity of colours of sizes.

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All of them have interesting adaptations for surviving in the particular part of the world where they live.

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They like cold, wet habitats which I don't particularly like. I prefer heat!

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The largest frog is the Goliath Frog from West Africa.

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It's an extremely robust beast of an animal that can jump in one hop 10 feet.

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If I could come back as a frog I would have to come back as a Goliath Frog.

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If I had to come back in a different life as a frog it would be the Golden Poison Frog.

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Because of its toxicity it's the most poisonous frog in the world.

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Primarily it's solid yellow in colour.

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The poison from one of these frogs can kill 90 people - from one frog.

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I'd be very sad if frogs were gone.

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When I'm in the rainforest, the sound of frogs at night is extremely reassuring.

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I think it brings the forest alive.

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It's really an overwhelming experience to step out into a tropical rainforest during a heavy rain

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and hear this cacophony of calls coming from all these different species.

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You hear them high up in the trees, you hear them low in the ground

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and you can definitely differentiate frogs based on their call.

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[Both start making frog sounds]

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That's a really bad impersonation.

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And i think you don't appreciate what it's like or you can't appreciate what it'd be like if frogs disappeared

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until you go to an area where frogs have disappeared.

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There are traditional threats such as habitat loss and degradation

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and nine out of ten threatened amphibians are impacted by habitat loss.

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Seems that as climate change and pan-global disease impacts on frogs

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they really might be harbingers of worse things to come.

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So now is really the time to learn how to save frogs.

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There's an action plan that details all the actions it would take to halt the extinction

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and decline of amphibians.

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We're developing a variety of projects: captive breeding of species that are affected by disease in the wild;

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savings of habitats the frogs depend on.

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I think what people can do is tell a friend, talk to people about amphibians,

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let people know that this is happening.

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Generate an interest and awareness.

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I think the more people learn the more they care.

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For every success that happens it's obvious that it is possible to save species.

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The thing that keeps me very positive and coming into work each day

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is that amongst all the stories of species declining and going extinct

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there are also good news stories.

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There are new species being discovered.

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At present there are about 6,000 species of amphibians described

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but some think that there might be as many as 10,000.

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The fact that there are species out there that we don't even know about yet

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is incredible and fascinating to me.

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It only takes a success like that once in a rare while to make everything we do worth it.