Save the Frogs Day
event in Buxton
"Come, hop into the garden, Maud"
SORRY EVERYONE BUT THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. BUXTON MUSEUM IS CLOSED AND ALL EVENTS ARE CANCELLED - WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG FOR
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part of an international weekend of action on behalf of amphibians
everywhere. Using information about fabulous frogs from around the world, draw
your own giant frog or make a model pond to hang on your wall complete with
tiny tadpole puppets! Or crocodiles - even though they're reptiles....I'M LEAVING THE CONTENT OF THE BLOG UP AS THE POINTS IT MAKES STILL STAND. FOR THIS AND OTHER CREEPING TOAD EVENTS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS, I'LL POST A SIMILAR ACTIVITY ON LINE AT THE TIME WHEN WE WOULD HAVE DONE THE ACTIVITY - SPO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS BLOG FOR THINGS TO DO!
(*most events are taking place on Saturday 25th but our frogs are waking a bit later....)
Find us: we'll be at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Rd, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6DA. follow the link for more information and directions
Details: this event is free (any donations will be hopped over to Save the Frogs)
Materials and vaguely artistic direction supplied
Tickets: no booking or tickets needed, just drop by and join in. Give yourself at least 30 minutes to make or draw something
Details: this event is free (any donations will be hopped over to Save the Frogs)
Materials and vaguely artistic direction supplied
Tickets: no booking or tickets needed, just drop by and join in. Give yourself at least 30 minutes to make or draw something
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| Leptopelis, Malawi |
From purple frogs to palm frogs, tinker frogs to sharp-snouted day frogs, ghost frogs, painted frogs, redbelly egg frogs, frogs are in danger across the world (not to mention toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians). Amphibians are important. They are the hunters of the slugs who eat your lettuces and the beetles that nibble your lilies. Their tadpoles feed just about everything else in the ponds where they live. More than that, they are delicate barometers of the state of an ecosystem: amphibian populations respond to water quality, air quality, even soil pollutions quickly and the health of their populations can be a call for help
Save
the Frogs Day in UK sets out to raise awareness of our resident amphibians and
the delights they offer and the threats they face and give visitors to an event
the chance to find out a bit more about some of the fascinating amphibians in
other part so the world….
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| Common Frog on North Uist |
At
our Save the Frogs Day event in Buxton, we’ll have information about some of
those strangely exotic amphibians from around the world (how can you not be fascinated
by a Togo Slippery Frog or a Bornean Flat-headed Frog?), someone to talk to (mostly me: as Creeping Toad I am also a zoologist,
a trustee for Froglife and a bit of an amphibian obsessive) and things to make
and do: inspired by a frog you might like to draw one as big as you are. Or
exercise your construction skills and make a pond of folded card and glue, with recycled
plastic water ad plants and maybe the questing toes of a paddling child dipping
into the “water” from above…..
This
event is also part of the Celebration:Earth! project: encouraging people to
stop, feel, think and reflect about the world around them: what have you done
that you are proud of to help the Earth, what would you like to do next? Who
could help you do that?
Useful links:
Artists:
main painting: c/o the wonderful Ruth Evans
Small Leptopelis: me from about 30 years ago!
North Uist frog: me
Toad's eye: Kenny Taylor
Water lilies: me
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