Hawaii Reporter Coqui article

Malia Zimmerman was on KHON's news the other week saying how she had a male coqui calling in her yard...then after 3 days it stopped calling, I emailed her and said "let's hope it's not sitting on eggs" and gave her my blogspot address. She emailed me back asking if I'd like to write a short couple of paragraphs about the coqui..so here's the link to the story. In the same story Gene Ward has started a coqui watch group for the HawaiiKai area and I've included his link as well.
Nice to see communities starting early on this issue.

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?23f7a6b0-f317-4e9c-9623-5ebd395072d4
http://www.genewardhawaii.com

The Vanishing Frog by Jeff Corwin

Found this link to "How Stuff Works" that had Jeff Corwins Animal Planet special in full! Please take the time to watch this, it's about 54 minutes in length. You may have to copy the link and paste it into your browser.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/animal-planet/34450-the-vanishing-frog-with-jeff-corwin-video.htm


This next link is to a San Juan Star article written by Jason Simms a freelance writer, the link is to his blog with a copy of the article. It states that the Neverland hotel has coqui's.

http://simmantics.blogspot.com/2008/10/coquis-in-california.html

Finally this one is a link to the PIJAC and how the CA Fish & Game Commission has listed the coqui as a "restricted list for importation, transportation or possession"
The new restrictions went into effect April 12,2008.

http://www.pijac.org/files/public/CA_Species.pdf


Hawaii should be concerned as California now has a reason to refuse shipments because of coqui's, not only on plants but in household items,cars,pallets ect. With the coqui now being found on Oahu they will only multiply as they did on the Big Island. As to their ability to survive the drier climate...they do fine in Kona.