We Can Be Their Bridges

On Befriending Amphibians

with Friends School of Atlanta

(May 2024/May 2025)

Please see Amphibian Week 2025 (May 4-10): Masters of Two Worlds

For expanded We Can Be Their Bridges content, see this spring 2024 Bridge Log post.

Many thanks to Friends School of Atlanta (FSA) students for sharing their artwork and voices, their teachers Joanna Gerber, John Grijak, and Jennifer Wardell Smith, Amphibian Foundation, and Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (PARC). Thanks also to Keith Lockwood for editing the 2025 revision.

FILM CREDITS:

New frog and imagined world illustrations by FSA 4th graders (spring 2024). To view all of the students’ artwork, please see the FSA Frog Song Gallery.

Illustration by Bonnie Gordon-Lucas from Joel Sartore’s 2013 photo of Toughie for The Photo Ark. joelsartore.com/ani078-00494/

Voiced by FSA students (spring 2025), Megan Hollingsworth, and Toughie (d. 2016). Recording of Toughie’s song (2014) courtesy of Mark Mandica, Amphibian Foundation co-founder.

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