– It can be exciting to follow the development from tadpoles to frogs, but unfortunately our amphibians are not doing so well. They are threatened by amphibious fungi, but also by pollution, climate change and overgrowth and degradation of dams, says section leader Knut Morten Vangen in the Norwegian Environment Agency in a press release.
Must apply for permission
To avoid the spread of amphibious fungi, the directorate has removed the exception in regulations that allowed the collection of eggs / rump trolls of buttsnute frogs to look at the development of frogs. Now, as for all other game, you must apply for a permit to collect.
Mysterious ring in the sky
– It is important to prevent the fungus from spreading. The fungus is found in water, and water that is transported with rump trolls can get lost and into other water than where it was collected, says Vangen.
The amphibious fungus has recently been detected in Norway. It is contagious and can cause disease and death in the amphibians it comes in contact with. Sick amphibians have not yet been registered as a result of the fungus, the Norwegian Environment Agency states.
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FRP: – Complete madness
The Progress Party believes that the new direction from the Norwegian Environment Agency is out of the question.
– This is complete madness. It is no wonder that the bureaucracy exclaims when people have to send an application to the Norwegian Environment Agency to pick up five rump trolls, says environmental policy spokesperson in the party, Gisle Meininger Saudland.
He believes that having to apply for a permit to catch tadpoles testifies to wrong priorities.
– On the one hand, they are destroying Norwegian nature with wind turbines despite enormous popular opposition. On the other hand, you must apply to the Norwegian Environment Agency in Oslo to be allowed to pick up a couple of rump trolls from a pond. Do they really not understand how silly this is? says Saudland.
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