In response to the 8th "Save the Frogs Day" conservation action, Taipei Vice Mayor Tang Ka-ki and New Taipei City Vice Mayor Chen Shenxian gathered at Taipei Municipal Zoo to connect with the pulse of the world through the conservation cooperation of the Taipei Red Frog, integrate the domestic and extraterritorial conservation of the Double North, and create the vision of "Frog Now Three Lives Livable Double North Well Life".
30 years ago, the Taipei red frog was widely distributed in the low-altitude swamps, paddy fields and other environments in western Taiwan, but in the past decade, with the use of pesticides, road construction and land development, the population of Taipei red frogs, which are particularly sensitive to the environment, has dropped sharply, and the original band distribution has rapidly shrunk to only a few sporadic habitats.
Among them, the lotus field located in Sanzhi Ashibo, New Taipei City, once witnessed the friendly farming to double the number of Red Frog population in Taipei, and people and the environment and other creatures can coexist harmoniously, but unfortunately, because of the artificial capture and rectification of streams when the sediment flows into the field, so that the Taipei Red Frog completely disappears in the lotus field of the classic story, which shows the sensitive and fragile side of the ecological environment and conservation animals, as long as you are a little careless, many people's long-term efforts may be instantly wiped out, and the need for conservation is more prominent across fields. Cross-agency collaboration.
For the first time today, the vice mayors of Shuangbei and Beibei joined forces to speak out for the Taipei Red Frog and join 26 other countries in responding to the global frog conservation effort. The two vice mayors jointly planted a narrow leaf zepus symbolizing hope in the breeding tank of the Taipei red frog population, while the heads of various bureaus and departments attached the goal of life under the tree of life, highlighting the development and construction of Shuangbei, which will list habitat preservation and species conservation as the core thinking of planning, so that Shuangbei can gradually develop into a friendly pastoral city suitable for human habitation and animal habitation, and look forward to the near future, artificially bred Taipei red frogs can return to the wetland environment in the wild.
The Shuangbei Municipal Government has begun to jointly promote the restoration of taipei's red frog habitat, so that the wetlands and surrounding agricultural use can be used for conservation, education, and economy. Using ecological conservation knowledge, we will develop the best economic development model with environmental sustainability implications, achieve a win-win future of life, production and ecological coexistence, and then practice the double north of ecological friendliness and progress.
The "Green Conservation" logo, co-sponsored by the Forest Service and the Compassion Foundation, represents organic farming in the production process, without spraying pesticides and fertilizers, and the conservation of animals, in a friendly and natural way. Through the monitoring of the focus index species, the protection of habitats, while allowing consumers to buy safe food and enjoy a green life, in addition to ensuring the livelihood of farmers, can also protect animals and their habitats, creating a win-win opportunity for production, ecology and life. It is hoped that the promotion of similar concepts will not disappear in the double north of taipei, so that the Taipei red frog named Taipei will not disappear.
Taipei Red Frog Archives
English name: Taipei grass frog
Scientific name: Hylarana taipehensis
Alias: God Frog Thunder Frog
Habitat: lakes, ponds, grass, paddy fields, ponds, with still waters as spawning sites
Body size: small and slender, male frog less than 3 cm, female frog about 4 cm
Features: Slender and slender, long tip of the snout, large and pronounced eardrum, yellow-green or grass-green on the back of the body, broad black-brown longitudinal band from the snout to the side of the body, and white dorsal fold
Habits: The male frog has incomplete singing sacs, and its call is a small monophonic "chirp", which reproduces in spring and summer, laying 300-500 eggs each time.
Distribution: Taiwan, eastern India, Nepal, Vietnam, southern China.
Conservation Level: Precious and Rare Conservation Class
Origin of the name: Taipei Red Frog, a second-class rare and rare conservation wild animal in Taiwan, was named by american scholar John VanDenburgh (1872-1924) in 1909, and the naming specimen was collected from Taipei, so it was called Taipei Red Frog.
(Zhongshi Newsletter)