#savethefrogs

🐸 I made a shirt to help spread awareness of chytrid, a fungal disease that’s driving several frog species to extinction! 

I’ll be donating all the profits I make to the Honduras Amphibian Rescue & Conservation Center, an organization that’s helping several critically endangered frogs and researching the chytrid fungus!

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Here is your regularly scheduled PSA about things mass media is ignoring! 

THE FACTS

1. An alarming 200 frog species have gone extinct recently, and we are on track to lose another hundred in the next century (ecowatch.com), this is enough to classify this as a mass extinction which is when nearly every single species of an organism ceases to exist any more (usually due to external environmental pressure) 

2. This is not just happening locally. Frogs are dropping on every single continent that frog populations are found. 

3.  The two main reasons for this are deforestation and a new pathogenic chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis that is particularly prevalent in Latin America 

4. “...reptiles and amphibians are going extinct at 10,000 times the rate of other organisms.” (published by John Alroy at Macquarie University in Australia)

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Read up! Ignorance isn't pretty, and will not help the situation whatsoever. Get well versed in the topic and spread the word :) Not much is known about this topic at the moment so any publicity is great. (I’ve included a section of links below to help you if you are so interested)

Help prevent further deforestation! Plant trees with the browser Ecosia or stop supporting companies that thrive off of it (buy recycled paper for instance!)

Cool and Reputable Links!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/frog-mass-extinction/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/05/scientists-say-we-are-on-pace-to-generate-a-mass-extinction-of-frog-species/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.232e053d51e5

https://www.ecowatch.com/frogs-are-on-the-verge-of-mass-extinction-scientists-say-1882106675.html

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/endangered-species/frog-extinction.htm