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Not only in our country there is this issue!
When the rain arrives, this trigger the migration of frogs and toads. Like every year specimens of toads and frogs are on their way to their breeding grounds, usually ponds, but also lakes. After spawning, the batrachians remain few weeks in this places, and then return to where they came from. Unfortunately, the slowness that characterizes the toads is sometimes a fatal handicap that does not allow them to cross unharmed the streets.
Please drive carefully and, if possible, help with volunteering groups these little lads to cross the streets…
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Non solo nel nostro paese vi è il problema!
Quando la pioggia arriva, questo innesca la migrazione di rane e rospi. Come ogni anno esemplari di rospi e rane sono in viaggio verso le zone di riproduzione, di solito stagni, ma anche i laghi. Dopo la deposizione delle uova, i batraci restano poche settimane in questi luoghi e poi tornare da dove sono venuti. Purtroppo, la lentezza che caratterizza i rospi è a volte un handicap fatale che non permette loro di attraversare indenni le strade.
Si prega di guidare con prudenza e, se possibile, aiutare con i gruppi di volontariato questi piccoli ragazzi di attraversare le strade…
Il WWF invita tutti gli automobilisti a circolare con prudenza su questi tratti stradali (che vengono segnalati con appositi cartelli), specialmente durante le ore serali. Cerchiamo inoltre volontari. Chi volesse mettersi a disposizione per una o più sere alla settimana in una delle località sopra indicate può contattare Tiziano Maddalena, responsabile dell’azione salvataggio anfibi, 079 628 07 77, e-mail: tmaddalena@ticino.com
THANK YOU * GRAZIE
photographs of the lovely frogs and tods by: Mirko Zanini
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aFrankAngle
/ March 4, 2015We will be hearing the croaks soon. Love the music you’ve chosen
Giovannoni Claudine
/ March 4, 2015Thank you Frank… ohh yeah, just think about 200 frogs “croaking”… that’s music!!!! These are such sensible creatures, the myths tells about a prince transformed into a frog 😉 even if I kissed many of them, they still remain frogs… no princes here around! Do you have such problems where you live?
aFrankAngle
/ March 4, 2015Because I don’t kiss frogs, I don’t have the problem. (I couldn’t resist).
We have a few around our residence, but the majority are the small tree frogs that sing a lot at night.
Giovannoni Claudine
/ March 4, 2015😀
Stacey
/ March 4, 2015They are so sweet; you are so wonderful for caring about their welfare. 🙂
Giovannoni Claudine
/ March 4, 2015As I told Frank… kidding indeed (well, about the princes) but really they are lovely little animals and they deserve our respect and love too!
As soon as we enter in the action, I’ll get some nice photos and post them for all of you!
snowbird
/ March 4, 2015I shall certainly drive carefully. I do love frogs and have lots of them in my pond. I do wish I had some toads too!xxx
Giovannoni Claudine
/ March 5, 2015🙂 for their lovely love-songs? It is such a special music… for us music lover…
Have a lovely day ❤
ShimonZ
/ March 8, 2015I have a great love for frogs… just because they live two incarnations in this world… an example to give us hope.
Giovannoni Claudine
/ March 8, 2015Yes, dear Shimon, I agree… Hope shall be always in our hearts… always… ❤
Katherine
/ April 15, 2015We used to have them but alas they have gone.We have long garden and there were pots with water in they used.Before we came there was a pond which their ancestors lived in.In fact ot was a monastery with fish ponds and then houses were built over it.I get a thrill when I see a toad under the wooden bench.:)
Giovannoni Claudine
/ April 16, 2015Unfortunately that’s the true happening all over our Planet: man destroys Nature, he lost consideration of it as “a living entity”… if she dies, we will die with her! But all is not lost jet, we need to sensitize those around us, to act in the name of the Great Mother…
Thank you very much for your words,
serenity :-)c