On the right Sir David Attenborugh adds the finishing touches to Frederick the Frog at a photo call at London Zoo to launch the Year of the Frog in 2008. Photo by Daniel Sprawson ZSL .Amphibians face potentially the biggest mass extinction since that of the dinosaurs. For more on that visit the London Zoo newsletter  or Amphibian Ark Org For other species under threat of extinction see

Edge of Extinction org which is based at London Zoo.

Frederick was made by Anthony Wilson in two weeks with recycled materials. The mouth, for example, is a squashed TV satellite dish. The stomach is coated with aggregate of crushed CD's. This and the recycled  glass aggregate used as a coating for the rest of the body was donated by Sureset Paving

Frederick made it to the

Hello! website