by frog
Here’s a short advert from my mates at NZFrog.org:
The University of Otago begins its 2008 Winter Lecture Series with a lecture on frogs tonight in Wellington and tomorrow in Auckland by Dr Phil Bishop from the university’s Zoology School.
Do you speak frog?
Dr Phil Bishop does. Yes, he speaks frog, and more importantly he speaks for the increasingly endangered frogs. His most important message is to tell us that all New Zealand frogs are in the top 60 Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) Amphibians. Dr Bishop is a key driver of the New Zealand Frog Research Group which is co-ordinating conservation strategies for preventing these precious and unusual frogs from becoming extinct in the near future.
More than 30 per cent of all amphibians in the world are threatened with extinction – including New Zealand’s precious native frogs, which are among the most endangered in the World.
The lecture series is open to all and will be held tonight, at 6pm, Wednesday 2 July, at the University’s Stadium Centre, Westpac Stadium,Waterloo Quay, in Wellington; and then again the following evening, Thursday 3 July, also at 6pm, at the University’s Auckland Centre in Queen Street.
Photo Credit: NZFrog
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Wed, July 2nd, 2008
Tags: , Dr Phil Bishop, NZFrog
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
I still think it awesome that NZ’s native frogs do not croak, do not live in ponds, are not green, and do not go through a tadpole stage after hatching.
Defy them stereotypes, lads! Be yourselves!
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Don’t worry no matter how unique they are we will 1080 them out of existance in the name of disease control.
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