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Feb 21, 2016 4:44 AM CST
Name: Glen Ingram
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Lucky, sounds like you are in a good area. But, most people don't have a choice to want to get rid of frogs in their yards. The use of pesticides, acidification, nutrient pollution, and draining of wetlands has made sure they have been long gone. As well, because of human-introduced diseases, there has been a massive extinction of species in the last 30 years.

I remember many instances of people being adverse to frogs when I was a curator. It was always to do with their calls. One man rang me at his wits' end because his wife was so fixated on a Striped Marshfrog call that she had locked herself in the toilet and stuffed clothes in any space. He couldn't get her out. Another, where a man sneaked over and poisoned his neighbours ponds (and several of their pets). Another where a lady used to boil pots of water and throw it where she thought the frogs were - or on them if she actually saw one. She said they turned bright red when she got one.

In many countries, however, there have been popular movements championing the return of frogs. Gardening societies have been in forefront of this. It came with the acknowledgement that frogs in a garden meant less pests. Amphibians are big eaters of insects.

Frogs are also good indicators: like how canaries were used in coal mines in olden times. If the canary died, you had to go for your life because what you were breathing was going to kill you soon. Frogs are very sensitive to adverse environmental changes. If you got frogs, something is okay in your microcosm.
The problem is that when you are young your life it is ruined by your parents. When you are older it is ruined by your children.
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