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Frog Talk - Conservation International (CI)

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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.
Title:
Frog Talk - Conservation International (CI)
Description:

with Amphibian Experts Robin Moore and Don Church

Learn more about amazing frogs and amphibians, the threats to their survival, and the work being done to protect them!

You can help protect frogs from extinction by making a gift at:
http://www.Conservation.org/LeapDay

Find more frog facts at:
http://www.conservation.org/FMG/Articles/Pages/fun-frog-facts-for-leap-year.aspx
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
03:55
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