Every summer, thousands of fingernail-sized Western toads cover a rural road in the community of Ryder Lake in Chilliwack, British Columbia. When the toadlets migrate from their breeding ground in ...
Toad People tells the true love story between people and toads and demonstrates that we have, in fact, a lot to learn from them. As a conservation champion, western toads are an unlikely film star.
Shane Gross (Canada) looks under the surface layer of lily pads as a mass of western toad tadpoles swim past. Shane snorkelled in this lake on Vancouver Island for several hours. Any disturbed silt ...
Once considered a common western garden amphibian, the large, warty boreal toad has recently experienced dramatic population declines, suffering across its U.S. range from threats like habitat ...