The Agile frog Rana dalmatina has seen a population decline in Jersey since the early 1940’s and by the late 1980’s only two small populations remained in the south west of the Island.
Natural Environment have been carrying out habitat management, spawn protection techniques and monitoring of this iconic species since the early 1990’s but it is since the advent of captive breeding at Durrell and the reintroduction of Agile frogs to historic and new breeding ponds, in tandem with protective methods that annual counts on spawn clumps have increased exponentially.
We will learn more about the history of the project, the hurdles that have been overcome and the new threats that the Agile frog now faces presented by the passage of time.
