How can frogs help humans

As soon as I get a reply, I will let you know. Please email me a picture of the frog in question so i can forward it to him. I would like for you to consider the following. I have lived in Florida my whole life. The Cuban tree frog was always part of my environment and I am almost I grew up mostly in Miami. I suspect but cannot confirm that they have been around for at least yrs. When do we acknowledge the benefits of a species? What is said about the Cuban tree frog negativity can be said about our native frogs.

They make noise, can disrupt electrical, pee on you etc. They eat an incredible amount of mosquitoes and other pests. I feel that with changing climates there will be a lot more migration and we should entertain the idea that this is natural.

That a species that thrives in urban environments is a plus. Humans done more damage to native ecosystems than any exotic. Domestic pets like cats have all but decimated the sparrow population in south Florida.

Frogs are among the first animals to respond to any kind of environmental change, such as pollution, climate change or habitat change. In places where frogs disappear, whole ecosystems change irreversibly for the worse. Streams without tadpoles clog up with algae and the animals that rely on frogs for food begin to disappear. The loss of one frog species is more like losing two species, as adult frogs and tadpoles fulfil different roles in the environment.

The loss of frogs also has a direct impact our wallet and our health. Frogs consume enormous amounts of insects, including pest species. Healthy frog populations can keep mosquito numbers down, as tadpoles and mosquito larvae battle it out in ponds and swamps, thereby reducing your chance of contracting mosquito-borne diseases. Frogs also have a cocktail of chemical compounds on their skin that protect them from infection — and these compounds are being explored for their use in human medicine.

Frogs are particularly susceptible to changes in the environment. Their usually moist skin helps their weak lungs by exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide with their environment — both in water and out of it. In fact, last year scientists found a frog without lungs -— it breathes only through its skin.

Over 6, different species of amphibians are known — and new species are still being found. Nearly half of the species are in decline, mostly from threats to their habitat. Frogs lose their homes to development, but they are also harmed by garbage, non-native plants and animals, and discarded chemicals.

Watch what you throw away —and where you throw it away—to keep frog habitats trash-free. The water that ends up in storm drains, for example, often travels through forests and grasslands and dumps into wetlands — all prime frog habitat. On the other hand, shorelines should stay naturally cluttered with the leaf litter, rocks and logs that frogs use for cover. Frogs evolved over millions of years to fit into specific ecological niches defined by factors like temperature and water levels.

They need clean water to survive, but they also eat—and feed—other species. The tadpoles that hatch from frog eggs depend on finding their favorite plants to eat and hide under. As with the stocked trout and the mountain yellow-legged frog, sometimes even one out-of-place species can disrupt an entire habitat. The invasive species can sometimes be another frog — like African clawed frogs and American bullfrogs that were moved outside their original habitats.

The worldwide export of some frogs may even have contributed to spreading the amphibian chytrid fungus around the world. African clawed frogs were once exported for medical uses and are now popular as pets. Bullfrog legs are exported all over the world as food, especially from Indonesia. Reduce chemical use.

The water table on which we depend collects a lot of the chemicals we flush down our drains or add to our lawns PDF , despite our best efforts to treat the water.