Freemont's Favorite Links

If, like Freemont Frog, you've become alarmed over the environmental conditions threatening the planet and all who inhabit our world, you will find the following websites worthy of your attention:

FrogsVilleUSA   One of Freemont's favorites. Great place for exploring the world of frogs, a frog-lovers fellowship of facts, fun and frog-friendliness.

Kidwick Books   Eric Drachman founded this organization to bring more fun into educating young and old, alike. Books like, A Frog Thing, show his success. To Freemont's way of thinking, Eric is a kid at heart, a quality well worth having.

The World Conservation Union   Dedicated to conserving the environment, IUCN says "16,119 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction and many ecosystems." As a lifelong member of endangered amphibians, Freemont can't help wondering when his number could be up.

All the frogs and other concerned creatures Freemont has spoken with unaimously agree the Audubon Society, The Santa Fe Institute, Conservation International, Friends of the Earth, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Care for the Wild International, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Green Belt Movement and the National Zoo's FONZ: Mystery of Declining Frogs and Frogs, the Rainbow Connection, are but a few of the many resources available to those seeking more information on environmental conservation. They all deserve a frog's thumbs-up. That is if we frogs had thumbs!

From Temple of the Rainbow . . .

In Chapter Nine of Temple of the Rainbow, Freemont meets a malformed frog named Leapold, of the Bah-Bat Wog Clan, who asks after Pea-purs, a frog from another clan.

"Oh you've met him?" asked Leapold. "How's he doing?"

"Pea-purs is dead," I answered. "Before he died he told me he was the last of his kind. He and his whole clan, gone forever." LeaPold said nothing for awhile. Just sat and stared out across the meadow.

"What killed them?" he asked finally. "Do you know?"

"Pea-purs said he thought it might have something to do with the water," I answered. "Told me a lot of bugs and fish had recently died."

"Senor Sapo warned there would be others," said LeaPold. "He warned changes would one day effect more than just our clan, but I didn't want to believe him."