The Best Photo of The Week - Amphibians at The Boundary Between Land And Water.

The massive capture of frogs was very easy during the breeding period, because on small areas of water, for example the abandoned riverbeds, or in small swamps / ponds / lakes in hilly / mountainous areas, the concentration of frogs gathered to laying eggs was huge. Often the surface of these waters was covered almost entirely by frogs during the breeding season. Amateur collectors left a disaster behind.

You could see cut frogs, without hind limbs, still crawling on their forelimbs. Unfertilized eggs hung from these "living corpses," and reproduction was compromised. These annual spring slaughters have produced an ecological disaster over the years, and we have reached the situation today, when these species are almost non-existent in forests outside the breeding season, and in many of the waters not even in spring former breeding areas.

Today, it has become difficult to find a frog to see the local fauna, in areas where before during the breeding season you could see hundreds or even thousands of specimens. In breeding grounds, frogs gather from a large area, so if a large number of specimens are killed, repeated over several years, the result is a reduction, then the disappearance of entire populations.

The phenomenon that was repeated year after year had the logical result - the frogs almost disappeared.

Cannon EOS 5D Mark III
EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
100mm ƒ/8 1/250s ISO 400
2019 Il Lago di Paola, Laguna di Sabaudia, Latina.