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2022-03-20T17:27:06.147Z


In use for frog and toad Created: 03/20/2022, 18:17 Night work: Helpers from the Bund Naturschutz (Bund Naturschutz) with coordinator Hildburg Kraemer (3rd from right) ensure that frogs and toads can cross the street safely, as shown here on Jörg-Tömlinger Straße. © Michael Schönwalder Rising temperatures awaken spring feelings in amphibians. They start their way to the spawning waters. But on


In use for frog and toad

Created: 03/20/2022, 18:17

Night work: Helpers from the Bund Naturschutz (Bund Naturschutz) with coordinator Hildburg Kraemer (3rd from right) ensure that frogs and toads can cross the street safely, as shown here on Jörg-Tömlinger Straße.

© Michael Schönwalder

Rising temperatures awaken spring feelings in amphibians.

They start their way to the spawning waters.

But on this dangerous journey, frogs and toads need help.

Würmtal

– The nights are getting warmer and milder – and the amphibians are migrating.

Common and agile frogs as well as common toads and newts now begin the dangerous journey to their spawning waters to mate and lay their eggs until mid-April.

Equipped with high-visibility vests and flashlights, volunteers set out in the Würmtal valley at dusk to carry the animals safely to the other side of the road.

Roads as a deadly obstacle

Amphibians like damp weather and darkness best, which is why there are so many animals out and about on such days.

They often have to cross streets.

"When the frogs see the light of the cars, they sit and startled and then it's usually too late," says Sabine Schmid-Zeller, member of the Bund Naturschutz and organizer of the Kraillinger task forces.


Sidewalk drops helpful

This life-threatening obstacle is not the only problem.

Often "the toads bump their noses on a sidewalk elevation," says Hildburg Kraemer, who coordinates the BN helper group of the Würmtal North local group.

"They then try to find a way along the edge or jump back to the other side of the road." Which puts them even longer in danger of being run over.

"We are very grateful that the municipality of Planegg built a sidewalk lowering on Jörg-Tömlinger-Straße," says Kraemer.

She hopes other communities will follow suit.

Richard Richter, head of the Planegger environmental agency, plans to set up two more lowerings in this street.

"But only if it's not dangerous for people and they don't accidentally fall or hurt themselves."


Helpers welcome

The Jörg-Tömlinger-Straße in Planegg and in Gräfelfing the Pasinger Straße and Starnberger Straße in the area of ​​the Heitmeier settlement are well-known hiking trails for amphibians;

Jörg-Tömlinger-Straße is therefore closed at night.

Unlike other streets.

In order to secure this, the helpers of the BN local group Würmtal Nord ask for support.

Interested parties can offer their help by telephone on 0171/770 77 68 or by e-mail to the address hildburg.kraemer-@gmx.net.


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Focus S-curve

In Martinsried in particular, the volunteers still urgently need support.

"The S-curve between the Max Planck Institute and the IZB is a focal point," says Hildburg Kraemer.

Vehicles often drive at high speeds here.

This is life-threatening for the amphibians, because according to experts, the air pressure of a fast-moving car can cause the internal organs to burst or be pushed out through the mouth, causing the animals to die in agony.

And that from more than 30 km/h.


More than 1300 amphibians carried across the street

The Munich district office asks all road users to drive slowly and carefully in all places, especially on rainy nights between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.

Especially on streets with signs that indicate an increased occurrence of amphibians.

Hildburg Kraemer: "If there's something on the street that looks like a dried leaf, it's probably a frog." Then you have to drive by at walking pace or, best of all, "get out and help the animal across the street".

Last year, helpers from the BN local group Würmtal Nord carried more than 1,300 amphibians across the street.

The rescue came too late for 41 animals.


Always in pairs

Drivers should slow down, not just because of the amphibians.

Despite wearing safety vests and flashlights, the volunteers cannot always be spotted in time at high speed in the dark.

"That's why we always go in pairs at night," says Sabine Schmid-Zeller.

"Sometimes you almost have to jump off the road in front of the fast-moving cars to avoid getting injured." Together with other helpers, she looks after the protective fence that was recently installed on the Roman road near Gut Hüll.

The amphibians follow the fence and fall into the buckets sunk on the ground there.

"That's completely harmless," says Schmid-Zeller, "they are covered with leaves, rubble and branches.

Nothing will happen to them.” Between 10 p.m. and midnight, two helpers take the amphibians out of the buckets and carry them across the street.


District Attorney is asking for your help

The Munich district office is also asking all homeowners to help during the amphibian migration season and calling on them to check basement shafts for animals that have fallen into them.

As far as possible, these should be covered as a preventive measure.

Jana Popp

Source: merkur

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