give us a hand!
Spring. Come on, it's time to migrate ...
Frogs, toads and other amphibians are certainly among the most popular animals, mainly because of prejudice and ignorance of their fundamental ecological role of animals such as hogs annoying to humans (mosquitoes and flies) and harmful to agriculture (snails and other invertebrates).
Today, these small and useful friends are in grave danger and in fact in recent decades has been a sharp decline in their presence on our territory due, directly or indirectly to human activity. Recent studies on sample road sections in Lombardy, in fact, have estimated that every year the traffic sweeps over one million adult specimens of amphibians in early spring warmth will lead, during the twilight and at night and making mass migration to some times kilometers from the lakes to spawn. To vehicular traffic is in fact due to the disappearance of several populations of common toad in Lombardy that until a few years ago were reproduced on the banks of the great pre-alpine lakes, even at the risk of arriving in a few years, the extinction of populations of these amphibians. This has proven solutions that appeal to other countries (Switzerland, Holland, Great Britain) and in 1984 the Nature of Brianza Group, based in Canzo, systems and networks and buckets buried on the roadside, within which were to fall Amphibians that some volunteers was filed in the reeds. From
in our province are different between these sites and save the road from Lecco to Bellagio in the locality and Onno Melgone, where in 2009 they were rescued about 27,000 toads. For years now, volunteers or not belonging to various charities and environmental organizations (GEV of the Province of Lecco, ENPA, LAC, WWF - sez. Lario Orientale) organize the convenient "taxi service" for these animals and also supports Legambiente this rescue action through "
So, we need teams of volunteers in the evening, when the animals begin their movement, assist them in crossing roads by providing a kind of "taxi service".
Those interested to participate actively or just receive information can telephone the office of Legambiente Lecco number 0341.202040 or by e-mail (simone@legambientelecco.it).