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World Frog Day 2012 |
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The World Frog Day will be celebrated the world over on 28th April, 2012.
Save The Frogs Day is the world's largest day of amphibian education and conservation action. 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. Amphibians are without a doubt the most endangered group of animals on the planet: nearly 1/3 of the world's 6,485 species are on the brink of extinction. There are six major factors negatively affecting amphibians, and all are due to human activity: habitat destruction, infectious diseases, pollution & pesticides, climate change, invasive species, and over-harvesting for the pet and food trades. To make matters worse, many of these threats act in concert with one another to create synergistic (magnified) effects. For instance, perhaps exposure to either a particular pesticide or pathogen would not kill affected frogs. However, if the frogs became infected by the chytrid fungus after a pesticide had compromised their ability to mount a sufficient immune response, the population may experience a lethal disease outbreak, and be driven to local extinction. If a significant portion of the species' remaining habitat had already been logged, invaded by introduced species, or had become unusable due to altered rainfall patterns, the species could be on a rapid path toward global extinction. Unfortunately, though national parks and reserves are an integral part of conserving amphibian populations, they are no longer sufficient in and of themselves, as airborne pollutants, climate change and infectious diseases can easily cross any boundaries. A significant amount of effort will be required to alleviate the current threats to amphibians. This artwork of mine was used to raise awareness about the need to raise awareness about saving Frogs. Frog legs as delicacy and frog frappe has gained so much popularity, that people are completely unaware of the ecological damage that is being caused. Eating an animal to extinction, however, is inexcusable. |
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6 Comments
Lovely painting and great information.
Posted 23-06-2013 19:37
Very informative piece of info shared
Posted 09-06-2013 14:19
Frogs are another divers species, we must preserve.
Posted 09-06-2013 14:19
Very informative article!
Posted 25-04-2012 22:32
I think the paint is your artwork ;^) Thank you Anjali~~ It's really informative!
I could get a well-abstracted knowledge about the danger of extinction of amphibian.
Posted 19-04-2012 10:07
NYC!
Posted 18-04-2012 21:18