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Frog-saving campaign under way

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Nick Hodge 23.04.2013 10:18
Thousands of frogs and toads and being saved from traffic in Ciechanow, northern Poland, after a local councillor took the matter into his own hands.
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Artur Sobotko has been building special contraptions to entrap the amphibians, so as to stop them from meeting a sticky end while crossing the road.

April is the time when frogs and toads awake from their hibernation in meadows and seek out places to mate. Unfortunately, a key migratory route in Ciechanow has a busy road running through it.

Sobotko notes that some days he catches close to a hundred specimens, which he duly transports across the road by hand.

He has also appealed to like-minded citizens to drive carefully, and is keeping fingers crossed that the council may fund a special frog-crossing for the future.

“Councillors from Ciechanow are informed about the matter,” said Dariusz Weclawski, councillor on the local committee for social affairs, in an interview with Polish Radio.

“We are treating the matter very seriously,” he said, adding that frogs are great allies as they keep the mosquito population down. (nh)

Source: IAR, eciechanow.pl

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