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How Can I Get Involved?

If you are concerned about toads, please join our efforts to protect them during their annual migration. Create an account using the LOGIN FORM on the left to receive updates and newsletters by email.

To book volunteer shifts:

  1. First, log in to your account. You must create an account and be logged in before booking shifts.
  2. Click on the boxes in the Events calendar on the left for the dates you are available.
  3. Fill in the Events form and click "BOOK"

Please read our Volunteer Orientation Handout and Instructions for Toad Patrolers.

You may sign up as a Committee Member by contacting Lisa Levinson at 215.620.2130 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Saving Toads - You Can Help!

Why do toads cross the road? To get to their breeding ponds. Unfortunately, some of those roads are heavily traveled by cars and the results are deadly for the toads. In Roxborough, a Philadelphia neighborhood, hundreds of toads migrate from nearby woods and gardens to the Roxborough Reservoir south of the ball fields. Each year, more than a hundred toads are squished by cars, especially on Eva Street, Port Royal Road and Hagy's Mill Road. If present trends continue, this could eliminate the toad population. Ideally, roads should be designed with barriers leading to underpasses for toads.

 

TOAD DETOUR

TOAD DETOUR is an effort to protect toads as they migrate to and from their breeding ground each year and to raise public awareness about the migration. The TOAD DETOUR Committee is composed of local citizens and officials from various agencies (Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Mobilization For Animals Pennsylvania, Fairmount Park, Applied Ecological Services, Residents of Shawmont Valley Association, Philadelphia Police Department 5th District, Philadelphia Streets Department). The main goal of the Committee is to initiate new policies improving migration safety for the local toads. The Committee will establish a temporary road detour on evenings of heavy migration and educate the community about migration safety.

 

 

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DONATE

If we can get enough funding, we hope to buy signs to alert drivers about the toad migration. You can help by writing a check to "Mobilization For Animals" with "Toad Detour" in the memo section and mailing it to:

Toad Detour
c/o Schuylkill Center
8480 Hagys Mill Rd
Philadelphia, PA 19128

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TOAD PHOTO CONTEST

Kids, help us show the world the Roxborough toads on their journey to the Reservoir and the people who are helping to get them there safely!
Click here to read the rules and learn how to enter your pictures.