Pool Frog News Today

This project aims to develop and restore habitats at two unique sites to protect the great crested newt.

Pelophylax lessonae, the northern pool frog, is one of the most endangered amphibians. The species' value to Britain was first realized in 1995 after going extinct in the UK. Thanks to a reintroduction campaign, it is currently prospering once more.

Czech scientists monitoring a green frog population in the Odra River Basin for twenty years have yet to find a female of the species. Known in Czech as the Skokan zelený (which translates as “Green Jumper”), the species are found in wetlands throughout Europe, and also known as the Common Water Frog, Green Frog – or Edible Frog. While they are on the menu in France, in the Czech Republic they are protected by law as a highly endangered species. Only in the Poodří wetlands is there a p...