Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Blog
(Frogbox will be donating 10% of sales on Save the Frogs Day, Friday April 29th, to Save the Frogs)
Why FrogBox?
Our mission at FrogBox is to be the convenient, affordable, and environmentally friendly alternative to cardboard moving boxes. Besides the fact that it’s just fun to say, we called ourselves FrogBox as a way of highlighting the environmentally friendly part of our mission. Frogs are what you call a “marker species” think of them as the canary in the coal mine of the environment, this means that if something is wrong in an ecosystem frogs are going to be amongst the first species to let us know.
Unfortunately for the frogs this means that they are the most threatened vertebrate group on Earth, with nearly one-third of the world’s 6,468 amphibians in danger. Not only are frogs dying around the globe, but their own wetlands are being destroyed and polluted at an alarming rate. Wetlands are a valuable part of our eco-system and play a very important role including providing habitat for frogs. This is one of the many reasons that FrogBox donates 1% of revenue to frog habitat restoration. We partner with many great organizations that are working hard to protect frogs and frog habitat, but today we wanted to highlight one of them.
Save the Frogs
Did you know that by the end of the first decade of the 21st century 200 species of frogs have gone extinct? Save the Frogs is one of many organizations that has taken a pledge to protect frogs and work to rebuild/restore frog habitat. They do this through community out-reach, world wide activism, education, and their yearly event “Save the Frogs Day”.
Save The Frogs Day is the world's largest day of amphibian education and conservation action. Please get involved and help save the frogs in your part of the world! There are currently 108 events planned in 19 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the USA! (taken from their website)
FrogBox is proud to share that we will be donating 10% of sales on Friday April 29th (Save the Frogs Day 2011) to Save the Frogs. If you would like to find out what’s happening in your area check out Save the Frogs website for event listings and to find out a way you can get involved.
head to this page on our site to find more information on some great organizations, including Save the Frogs, that are doing work to protect and restore frogs and their habitat around the world.
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