http://frogsaregreen.com Helping to bring awareness of the frog extinction crisis and frog conservation efforts Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:52:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://frogsaregreen.com/contact-us/comment-page-1/#comment-3386 FROGS ARE GREEN Earth Day Contest « Frogs Are Green- A blog to raise awareness about the threats frogs face in the world's changing environment... Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:40:25 +0000 http://frogsaregreen.com/wordpress/?page_id=55#comment-3386 [...] Contact Us Welcome to our blog, FROGS ARE GREEN! For over 200 million years, ponds, marshes, grasslands, and rain forests have come alive with the calls of frogs. Yet these remarkable and colorful animals are declining at such a rapid rate that they are being called the Earth’s next dinosaurs. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, a third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction. To read more, click here! Visit our Press page to see interviews and news features. To follow us on Twitter: @greeninnature Join our cause page on Teachers: Calling all Frog Artists! Susan and I are seeking kids’ frog art—lots of it! We hope to encourage kids and their teachers to learn about and get interested in frogs, toads, and other amphibians. If you’re an elementary school teacher, parent, or educator, please send us jpegs (2mb maximum size) of your students’ or kids’ drawings or paintings of frogs and we will display them in school group galleries on the FROGS ARE GREEN blog. We’d be happy to receive images of any art form—sculpture, drawing, painting, or watercolor. Read more>> Our Blog is Carbon Neutral! "My blog is carbon neutral" is an initiative by the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees in Plumas National Forest in Northern California. The goal is to reforest 5,500 acres with 792,000 trees. Announcing the winner of our first "Frogs Are Green" photo contest! Congratulations to Jocelyn Hyers, whose winning photograph of a green tree frog was taken in Pierce County, Georgia, USA. To see her photo click here! Do you do fieldwork or amphibian research with a zoo, environmental organization, university, or government agency? If so, please consider writing a guest post for us about your work (@300 words). Email it to us at: info@frogsaregreen.com. « Save the Frogs Day! April 30, 2010 LIFE: New Discovery Channel Series (and one amazing toad) » [...] [...] Contact Us Welcome to our blog, FROGS ARE GREEN! For over 200 million years, ponds, marshes, grasslands, and rain forests have come alive with the calls of frogs. Yet these remarkable and colorful animals are declining at such a rapid rate that they are being called the Earth’s next dinosaurs. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, a third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction. To read more, click here! Visit our Press page to see interviews and news features. To follow us on Twitter: @greeninnature Join our cause page on Teachers: Calling all Frog Artists! Susan and I are seeking kids’ frog art—lots of it! We hope to encourage kids and their teachers to learn about and get interested in frogs, toads, and other amphibians. If you’re an elementary school teacher, parent, or educator, please send us jpegs (2mb maximum size) of your students’ or kids’ drawings or paintings of frogs and we will display them in school group galleries on the FROGS ARE GREEN blog. We’d be happy to receive images of any art form—sculpture, drawing, painting, or watercolor. Read more>> Our Blog is Carbon Neutral! "My blog is carbon neutral" is an initiative by the Arbor Day Foundation to plant trees in Plumas National Forest in Northern California. The goal is to reforest 5,500 acres with 792,000 trees. Announcing the winner of our first "Frogs Are Green" photo contest! Congratulations to Jocelyn Hyers, whose winning photograph of a green tree frog was taken in Pierce County, Georgia, USA. To see her photo click here! Do you do fieldwork or amphibian research with a zoo, environmental organization, university, or government agency? If so, please consider writing a guest post for us about your work (@300 words). Email it to us at: info@frogsaregreen.com. « Save the Frogs Day! April 30, 2010 LIFE: New Discovery Channel Series (and one amazing toad) » [...]

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