The frog is currently emerging from hibernation, which also heralds the start of the end of winter. They travel miles to return to the exact place where they were born to reproduce in turn. Migration at risk for these small amphibians who must cross the traffic routes.
This is the start of the frog season this weekend, it does not only evoke good memories for Fanny Agostini.
When she was little, Fanny Agostini was traumatized by the chopper, used masterfully by her grandfather, who scalped the hindquarters of these poor amphibians. There is something not very worthy in this French culinary tradition, only the legs of the frog are used for our consumption. Take a good sized red frog, a 100 gram beast, take its legs off and it only represents 25 grams, which means that we eat a quarter of the poor frog, the rest we throw away. As if we only ate the thighs of our chickens and we got rid of the rest.
We massively import frogs for our consumption.
Raniculture, frog farming, exists on an industrial scale only in Drôme and in Normandy on our territory. Not satisfying our batracivore appetite, a large part of the frogs (around 100 million) would thus be imported from Indonesia to France for our annual consumption, which accelerates the disappearance of certain species of Indonesian frogs.
Are wild frogs protected?
Their collection in the wild is very regulated with regard to the common frog which is the only one to be marketed. If you walk around the ponds, marshes, streams and ponds, you will not fail to cross it because it is emerging from its hibernation, which also announces the beginning of the end of winter. They travel miles to return to the exact place where they were born to reproduce in turn. Migration at risk for these small amphibians who must cross the traffic routes. Devices are therefore put in place by associations and conservatory of natural spaces such as "toads" or even "toads", a kind of gateways adapted to prevent the red frogs from ending up in pancake or carpaccio under the tires of our cars. .