Quebec’s native chorus frogs are in danger as Montreal’s expanding suburbs continue to consume the wetlands where they thrive
On an April afternoon near a pond behind a suburban playground in Longueuil, 20 minutes southeast of Montreal,
Ms. Bouthillier dropped the frog into a plastic container, which she took to her car and placed in a cooler bound for the basement of Montreal’s, a natural science museum with habitats for wildlife. There, an emergency conservation effort is working to replenish local populations of the tiny chorus frogs, but it might be too little too late.
He remembers being six or seven years old and hearing a municipal councilman tell his parents that he wouldn’t let developers take the woods and wetlands away. “He said, ‘No, no, no, nothing’s going to be built in front of you,’” Mr. Montpetit recalled. “And at about eight or nine, I saw the housing projects beginning in front of my house. That’s when I learned that you can’t trust anybody that says it’s going to end.”, Mr.
, in threatening to sue the federal government if they didn’t overrule Quebec’s approval of the project and stop construction.to halt construction, but the road extension was already almost finished. Road signs, fire hydrants, ditches and a small underpass, which Mr. Montpetit says is insufficient for the frogs, had already been installed. “It’s drying up the wetlands on both sides, so we’re just waiting for somebody to do something, and nobody’s doing anything,” he said.
Biologists tried to shower the chorus frogs with rain and put them in a refrigerator to simulate winter, but they still wouldn’t breed come springtime. “We know a lot more about breeding amphibian species when it comes to a tropical species that people have at home than about the species we have here,” said Gheylen Daghfous, the live collection curator at Space for Life, a museum district that includes the Biodome and a few other institutions.
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