Toad Taxi
Every year, with the beginning of Spring, Senica schools
and blue teams - those joined under the We-Are-At-The-Same-Boat
innitiative - organize a "toad taxi", an outdoor citizen science
education project, the main focus of which is to help amphibians migrate
safely.
This year it
took exactly four weeks, from 9 March to 5 April. Afyer the barriers had
been propperly erected, the day-to-day field work saw 1446 grateful
"passengers", namely common toads, green toads, brown frogs and one
common newt safely carried to their mating grounds, classified and
counted.
The Big Thanks belongs this year to the following "toad patrols":
the Cerová location (447 common toad, 3 green toads)
Harnúšek family (ZUŠ Senica)Martina Dvorská (4.ZŠ Senica)Peterka and Držka families (Senica Sea Scouts)Ferenčík family (Sea Cubs)Danielových and Horváth families and Marta Kubová (Cerová inak NGO)
the Sobotište location (684 common toads, 14 green toads and 5 brown frogs)
Jaroslav and Filip Petrák, Vladimír Kuček and Broňa Šimková (Sobotište)Šimlinger family (Spojená škola, Senica)
the Prietrž location (283 common toads, 8 green toads, one brown frog and one common newt)
Andrea Trojková and "Kvapky" team (3. ZŠ, Senica), Gabika Schmidtová and Samuel Petráš (2. ZŠ, Senica), Monika Šimlingerová, Ondrej Puvák, Sofia Reháková, Ján František Žovák, Viktória Bilková, Simona Kosová, Šimon Olšovský, Peter Kudláč and Lívia Stanková (Spojená škola, Senica), Adriana Cyrmonová and family (Senica Sea Scouts), Ondrej Odokienko, Žák family and Slávka Hrebíčková (1. ZŠ, Senica)
We hope to see more next year.
Salva Omnes! (or "save them all" - the slogam of Senica Sea Scout team)