Save the Frogs Day
Save the Frogs Day wass marked on Friday, April 28, 2023, by an educational workshop at the Skradinski buk waterfall with the participation of the pupils of the 3rd grade of the Skradin Primary School. In the creative and research part, the children learned many interesting things about these amphibians and the reasons for their endangerment.
Save the Frogs Day, as a global movement, has been celebrated since 2008, with the aim of drawing attention to their endangerment and the need for their preservation. Save the Frogs Day, is yet another in a series of days meant to show the public how much, as humanity, we have harmed nature and added one more animal onto the list of endangered species.
About 5450 species of frogs live in the world, of which, according to the IUCN, as many as 32.5 percent are threatened, while in the last decade, 165 species of frogs became extinct. The main causes of frog endangerment, but also the entire group of amphibians, are the disappearance of their habitats, pollution, and climate change. Amphibians are located in the middle of the feeding chain and are an important link that connects the smaller organisms, such as insects, and larger one, like birds.
The reed areas, the lake sections of the course of the Krka River, the marshy meadows, and surrounding pools are the habitat for nine species of amphibians. The most numerous is the marsh frog (Pelophylax ridibundus), and also frequent are the common toad (Bufo bufo) and the European green toad (Bufo viridis). In the pools in the hilly area, the Alpine newt can be seen (Mesotriton alpestris), in slow water courses with thick vegetation the smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris), and in moist shadowy forests, the colorful fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra). On the edge of woods, the European tree frog is common (Hyla arborea), an acrobat in the world of amphibians, which can hang with one foot from the branch of a tree or stand vertically attached to a Typha leaf, with agile frogs (Rana dalmatina) in the surrounding moist meadows.
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