To make this contest successful, we need your help spreading the word! If you are an English or Writing teacher, please inform your fellow English and Writing teachers. Please email this to your friends & post on your website Please read these over, as they describe your rights to your submitted essay as well as ours.Īward winners will be announced via the official SAVE THE FROGS! newsletter. (4) Submission of writing constitutes your agreement to the Essay Contest Terms & Conditions. (3) Essays should be no longer than 300 words. (1) Submitted essays must be your original creation! Note however that the Grand Prize Winner may be chosen from any category. (2) Receive $30 worth of "Frog Cash" to be used for any of the cool, environmentally-friendly merchandise in the SAVE THE FROGS! Gift Center.Ĭategory winners will be chosen from the following categories. (3) Become an official judge of next year's SAVE THE FROGS! Essay Contest.
(2) Receive $50 worth of "Frog Cash" to be used for any of the cool, environmentally-friendly merchandise in the SAVE THE FROGS! Gift Center. Contest winners will also be acknowledged on this website, alongside a copy of their poem. Read the rules below, and good luck!ĭid we mention that there will be prizes? Aside from fame and the admiration of your peers, the Grand Prize Winner and Honorable Mentions may all see their poems featured in a book of Frog Poetry we will produce. Remember, essays should be between 250 and 300 words. All you have to do is write the essay! This year's essay title is And the more countries represented the better! Did we mention that it is indeed FREE to enter the contest.Įach year we will give you an essay title. We encourage amateur and professional writers to take part as well. We invite teachers, students and anyone else to submit 250-300 words of their finest frog literature.Īnybody! We encourage students and teachers to get their writing classes involved on Save The Frogs Day - April 30th, 2010. The SAVE THE FROGS! Essay Contest is designed to give teachers an easy way to get their students involved and interested in amphibian conservation.though you don't have to be a student to enter! Further, few students receive any amphibian extinction education in their schools. If you find a frog in your yard, share a photo or sketch with us! Or upload your sighting to iNaturalist so that researchers can track these important backyard neighbors.Amphibian populations worldwide are in the midst of a mass extinction crisis, yet most people are completely unaware. But there are ways we can help! Make your yard a little frog friendlier by using compost instead of chemical fertilizers, eliminating the use of pesticides, and replacing some of your lawn with native plant species. Chemical pollution, climate change, increased predation (by domestic cats and nonnative species), disease (such as chytrid fungus and ranavirus), and habitat loss all impact our frog friends. As adults, frogs eat many insects, including those which spread disease to humans.įrogs and other amphibians face huge threats, and their populations are declining worldwide. Tadpoles clean water by feeding on algae and they compete for resources with mosquito larvae, reducing the number of mosquitoes that survive to adulthood. Frog eggs and tadpoles help feed many creatures, including dragonfly larvae, snakes, raccoons, salamanders and water beetles. In addition to being an incredibly diverse and interesting group of animals in and of themselves, frogs are also an integral part of the ecosystem at every stage of their life. But why are we interested in amphibian populations at all, and frogs specifically? You may already know that Tremont has a community science project monitoring amphibian breeding by counting egg sacs in vernal (temporary) ponds each winter.
Please keep in mind that we have a permit for the study of wood frogs, and you should not handle their eggs if you come upon them-admire them, but don’t touch!
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