France spends €65000 on 'frog tunnels' under busy road

28 oct. 2015 en cache

A French council has spent €65,000 (£47,000) on tunnels to help frogs cross a busy road in Brittany in order to reach ponds where they breed. Despite the legendary Gallic appetite for frogs' legs sautéed in garlic, Vern-sur-Seiche, in Britanny, built ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor[...]n-frog-tunnels-under-busy-road.html

 

Tunnel to save frog lives

27 oct. 2015 en cache

The tunnels have been completed under the D86 at Vern-Sur-Seiche near Rennes where each January to March hundreds of frogs and toads are killed crossing the road to travel from woods to a nearby lake which is their breeding ground. Five tunnels have been ...

http://connexionfrance.com/frog-tun[...]-et-vilaine-17370-view-article.html
 

28 oct.2015
The French eat about 80 million frogs every year in stews and frog legs. A French council in Vern-Sur-Seiche, Brittany have done something of a different sort in constructing frog tunnels along a road where there were high mortality rates for frogs that try to cross the road to reach breeding ponds.