Green Options » common toad http://greenoptions.com/tag/common-toad Posts tagged 'common toad' Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:08:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Frogger Made Real: Using Google Earth to Map Toad Crossings http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/13/frogger-made-real-using-google-earth-to-map-toad-crossings/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/13/frogger-made-real-using-google-earth-to-map-toad-crossings/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:08:09 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/02/13/frogger-made-real-using-google-earth-to-map-toad-crossings/

The common toad is becoming much less common in England due to a sharp increase in traffic- and road-related deaths, but with the help of Google Earth, some conservationists hope to reverse the trend.

Froglife, an amphibian conservation group, has mapped 700  crossings throughout the United Kingdom with a tweaked Google Earth application. The data returns live results on toad fatalities and crossings so that the group can notify the public of areas where the animals tend to cross.

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