News for Teachers
Resources There's a new Hinterland Who's WhoTube webiosode called "Living with Wild Neighbours!" This and other webiosodes can be found at the Hinterland Who's Who website. > http://tv.hww.ca/ 2008 is the Year of the Frog Start preparing for September by integrating amphibian content into your science, social studies and environmental ethics programs. As many as a third to 50% of the world's frogs and other amphibians are endangered, as rates of extinctions have increased exponentially in the past 15 years. International scientists predict a mass die-off unparalleled since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Threatening factors include habitat destruction, pollution, over collection, invasive species, climate change, human overpopulation, and the Chytrid fungus, imported to the west for human pregnancy detection research in the 1930's. See how the Amphibian Ark is addressing this problem in a race against the clock. > http://www.amphibianark.org How will we solve the problems we've created? Watch the moving five minute documentary with David Attenborough on the almost extinct Golden Frog of Panama - the "waving frog" that puts an amphibian face on amphibian issues. > http://www.amphibianark.org/frog_gallery.html