Over the past 150 years, rapid growth in agriculture, industry, and urban development has resulted in dramatic changes in our environment. These changes pose significant challenges for animals and plants. It is well recognized among scientists that amphibian populations have declined.
Several species are now extinct and once-thriving populations have diminished in numbers.
Habitat loss, exposure to contaminants, ultraviolet radiation, introduced species, parasites, and fungal diseases are some of the factors identified as influencing amphibian declines. Understanding the decline of amphibian populations is crucial in uncovering how people s activities are affecting water quality, wildlife habitat, ecological processes, and other aspects of our environment. We share our environment with amphibians and their decline may foreshadow challenges we all will have to face in the 21st Century. Frogwatch USA recruits volunteers to complement other ongoing local, national, and global amphibian monitoring efforts. Provides an opportunity for children and adults to learn more about and establish a relationship with the natural world Frogwatch USA relies on volunteers, like yourself, across the nation to collect valuable data.