We speak to award winning ‘Frog Lady’, Dr Jeanne Tarrant, who heads up the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Threatened Amphibian Programme, is the Chairperson of the IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group, southern African region, media representative of the Herpetological Association Of Africa and 2020 Whitley Award winner.
Dr Tarrant tells us about the state of frogs and the effects of habitat loss, pollution, invasive plants and superstition has had on them.
If you don’t hear frogs as much as you used to, Dr Tarrant explains why. Firstly, how did the programme get started? “The EWT was starting to look at frog conservation back in 2012, just as I was completing my PhD in amphibian conservation.