Pledge to Help Save Frogs
Creating a pond in your garden will give frogs a home.
Frogs are under threat worldwide, from habitat loss, pollution, introduced species and, more alarmingly, a new deadly parasitic fungus known as amphibian chytrid.
If you want to play your part and ensure their survival in your own back yard, there are several things you can do.
Creating ponds is the best thing that anyone can do: build a pond in your back garden, as close as you can to an existing population.
Creating a frog pond isn't as difficult as it sounds, and can add much to a garden's aesthetic appeal. Ideally, a pond should be at least 60cm deep, in a shaded area, with pond liner (to keep the water in), with a few shallow edges for the tadpoles, and no fish.
However, it is important to let frogs arrive at your garden pond on their own. If there are frogs within 1000m, and the pond is suitable, they will often come unsolicited. Moving frogs into your pond can deplete other ponds of their populations, could possibly infect the transported frogs with disease.
Perhaps even more important than the pond is the area around it.
What people don't think enough about is the terrestrial environment, which amphibians spend about 90% of their life in.
At least two years of life is spent on land before they breed. If they are frogs, they only come back for a couple of days; if they are toads, they come back for two weeks each year. They actually are terrestrial animals that breed in ponds."
Wild areas of the garden, as well as "leaf piles, rocks, logs and garden debris," provide areas in which frogs can forage and hide.
You should avoid using chemicals if you hope to have frogs in the garden.
Slug pellets are not necessary if you keep frogs (since frogs eat slugs)
