Don’t Drive, Help Them Survive

Reduce amphibian roadkill

You can save lives by not driving on warm, wet spring nights. A simple and meaningful way to be a wildlife hero!

Many amphibians migrate down from woodlands to their breeding ponds during warm, wet spring rains each year. Here in the Northeast, due to the high density of roads, this often entails crossing at least one or more roads to get to their breeding pond.

Innumerable numbers of amphibians (easily well into the hundreds of thousands of individuals, likely much more) are killed every Spring in the Northeast by being runover by cars during these breeding migrations. It is one of the most significant wildlife conservation issues of our times!

Much of these migrations take place between March through mid-May, during warm (air temperatures ~50 degrees Farenheit and warmer), wet nights. These include many species such as spotted salamanders, wood frogs, spring peepers, American toads, gray treefrogs, and many others!

You can help reduce these tragic roadkill rates by refraining from driving after dark during these warm, wet spring nights. By doing so you will help provide them safe passage to and from their breeding ponds.