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Tokai area: Monday 22nd June 1930 - 2100 Tokai Library, Tokai Rd, Tokai
Edith Stevens area: Tuesday 23rd June 1930 - 2100 Edith Stevens Wetland Park, Lansdowne Rd, Phillipi
Fish Hoek area: Wednesday 24th June 1930 - 2100 Fish Hoek Library Hall Central Circle, Fish Hoek
Constantia area: Thursday 25th June 1930 - 2100 Alphen Hall, Constantia Main Rd, Constantia
Observatory area: Monday 29th June 1930 - 2100 Valkenberg EE Center, Valkenberg Hospital, Off Liesbeek Parkway Rd, Observatory
Hout Bay area: Tuesday 30 June 1930 - 2100 Hout Bay Library, 20 Melkhout Crescent, Hout Bay
Glencairn area: Wednesday 1st July 1930 - 2100 Southern Right Hotel, Entrance of Glen Rd, Glencairn
Zeekoevlei area: Thursday 2nd July 1930 - 2100 Rondevlei Nature Reserve, 1 Fisherman's Walk, Zeekoevlei.
Kirstenhof area: Monday 6th July 1930 - 2100 The Barn, The Sanctuary, Kirstenhof
Meadowridge area: Tuesday 7th July 1930 - 2100 Meadowridge Library C/o Howard Drive, Meadowridge
Noordhoek area: Monday 20th July 1930 - 2100 Red Herring restaurant, Beach Road, Noordhoek
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Toad volunteer meeting at 7:30pm Monday 20th July at the Red Herring restaurant!
It is time to stand together in our fight to save our much-loved Western Leopard Toad! That’s right folks – breeding season is upon us. Our amorous amphibians are getting ready for their annual migration to their local ponds for a little toad love! They face a number of trechorous road crossings and need our help!
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Posted by Suzie on July 4, 2009 at 3:27pm — 2 Comments
Toad Information Boards up at Noordhoek Farm Village
Suzie and Alison were delighted to see the hard work of the team proudly displayed at last.
Although there have been toad boards (at other locations) in the past, our boards are the first to explain how to welc… Continue
Posted by Alison Faraday on June 22, 2009 at 7:00am
ToadNUTS go Montessori!
ToadNUTS Alison and Michelle excited the minds of our future generation on how to conserve our biodiversity as well as our environment!
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Posted by Suzie on June 3, 2009 at 9:59pm
Toads on Facebook
This is just a quick invite for all of your keen toad lovers, if you are on facebook, join the toad group entitled, "The Endangered Western Leopard Toad."
Thanks for the support! ToadNUTS do it again! You guys rock.
Posted by Mark Day on June 1, 2009 at 1:30pm
Toad NUTS exibit at first ever Conservation Marketplace
On the 12th May 2009, SANBI hosted a networking and funding forum called the CONSERVATION MARKETPLACE. It was he… Continue
Posted by Alison Faraday on May 28, 2009 at 10:08am
For those of you that missed the 50/50 insert on the 4th May, here's the text which went together with Mark Becker's kind contribution of Sabrina & the toads and Thalia & the Toadsaver.
Producer: Anika Smith
Western Leopard Toad.
Ntokozo to Cam:
Ons het laasweek Nasionale padda dag gevier, en met die opwinding nog sterk in die lug is die week se Toktokkie nogsteeds gepas.
Suzie from Noordhoek in Cape Town sent us this lovely contribution.
They noticed that the endangered Western Leopard toadlets had emerged from their breeding pond and was worried that the toadlets were drowning in swimming pools in the area. Suzie and her friend Alison Faraday went… Continue
ToadNUTS hop over to cnn.com!
Copy and paste the link above for the full story!
Here are three snippets of the article;
(...By John D. Sutter CNN -- ...This "citizen science" movement is not exactly new, but it has grown fresh legs as the Internet and social-networking sites help people with uber-specified and often bizarre interests gang up for a cause...
...Dr. John Measey, a researche… Continue
Posted by Suzie on May 5, 2009 at 10:00pm
Comedy evening success!
On Friday night we managed to raise almost enough money to print our second board to be placed in the Sunvalley area! Well done to all who contributed!
A big thank you to Rioja restaurant for their amazing food and venue; Alison Faraday, Jenny Trethowan and John Measey for their amazing speeches and to Mark Sampson for a funfilled e… Continue
Posted by Suzie on May 4, 2009 at 2:36pm — 2 Comments
Be sure to watch 50/50 this Monday 4th May at 730pm on Sabc 2 for 'Thalia & the Toadsaver'
Posted by Suzie on May 2, 2009 at 2:30pm
Save the frogs day - 28 April
Posted by Suzie on April 14, 2009 at 1:24pm
Toad NUTS invite you to a fundraising comedy evening with Mark Sampson at Barocca lounge - Solole!
This unique and hilarious event will feature the unveiling of the very first Western Leopard Toad education board in the Western Cape paid for by funds raised by The Toad NUTS' December auction aswell as NEAG and Conservancy funding.
Join us to celebrate this landmark in conservation supported by The Western Leopard Toad Conservation Comittee.
Together we can keep those toads hopping!
All welcome!
Venue: Barocca lounge… Continue
Posted by Suzie on April 3, 2009 at 8:00pm
Key breeding pond unsuccessful.
The Toad NUTS have taken action after witnessing an unsuccessful toadlet season in one of our key breeding ponds this year. There have been numerous reports of a lack of toadlets this year from various residents living in the inner buffer zone (1km area around a breeding pond where to… Continue
Posted by Suzie on March 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments
Toad chooses drain over vynbos!
After our best efforts, this resident toad refuses to live in the vynbos and keeps returning to a hazardous drain which is regularly doused with hot water and harmful chemicals! The toad obviously likes the cool, damp, predator-free drain where life is easy and no strenuous burrow… Continue
Posted by Suzie on January 20, 2009 at 6:30am
Toad removed from house drain - Fish Hoek
Posted by Alison Faraday on January 4, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
28 Dec 08 - 389 saved from becoming roadkill!
Triggered by the rain yesterday, Cape Point Vineyards was a hotspot for WLtoadlets starting their first mass migration to the foraging grounds (our gardens!) Toadlets were air lifted over a busy Silvermine Road by eager volunteers between 2pm and 8pm saving 389 toadl… Continue
Posted by Suzie on December 29, 2008 at 5:30am — 2 Comments
Christmas came early for ToadNUTS!
(The photo was really hard to take as these little fellows are incredibly tiny!) The Western Leopard toadlets have finally arrived just in time for Christmas!! .. all we could ask for from Santa!! Last year this pond didn't produce any toadlets due to the exotic Carp fish who pre… Continue
Toadlets emerge from vineyard pond - 23rd December
The toadlets are so incredible small and very hard to see (imagine a 10c piece). We anticipate that the rains of the next 24 hours will see a lot more toadlets leaving the ponds. Please keep a very c… Continue
Posted by Alison Faraday on December 23, 2008 at 11:58pm
Merry Christmas!
May you have a memorable festive season & a prosperous 2009! See you in the new year**
Best Wishes from The
Western Leopard Toad Conservation Committee
Toad in the Village auctions off Nags Head memorabilia
Posted by Alison Faraday on December 18, 2008 at 12:31pm
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