And I spent about four years there, spent a whole lot of time in the rainforest with frogs and did I guess you could say fall in love with frogs. So, I did go to Australia and I did my PhD research at Griffith University in southeast Queensland with Dr. And so I did a bit of research and I found out about a couple professors, amphibian biologists in Australia, and one of them said that he would indeed supervise me if I got accepted to his university. And it was I get hanging out streams doing something interesting. Part was it sounds kind of cool and a little bit strange too. And I heard that frogs were rapidly disappearing around the world, so kind of I never had any frog fascination at all, but just it just hit me. So I started thinking what lives on the streams and could use some help. So what I realised that I really liked is hanging out at streams because when I would go hiking, I’d spent a lot of time at streams.
Though I was not that into studying birds, even though I like birds, in part just because holding the binoculars up all day kind of was bad on my neck. And from that, I confirmed that I did indeed want to dedicate myself to an environmental career. And I spent a summer doing endangered bird research in Hawaii. The first thing that I did was send out letters actually mailed letters in the day before email was easy to a lot of different professors at the University of Alaska and University of Hawaii. So I started looking into conservation careers. But after I finished my mechanical engineering degree at the University of Virginia, and I wasn’t all too enthusiastic about mechanical engineering, though I did like science I started thinking, it would be pretty amazing to actually do something good for the planet and be able to spend a lot of time outside. And when I was growing up, I never thought of conservation as a career. Yeah, I was very interested in protecting nature in general because in my later college years, I started spending a lot of time outside camping and travelling around the world also, and I visit national parks and I’d see a lot of habitat destruction all around and I wanted to do something about that. What motivated you to get on that flight? What did you want to learn about frogs and then save them? And I thought it’d be quite interesting just to start the discussion around that really.
SAVE THE FROGS HOW TO
So I read online that in 2003 you flew from the US to Australia to learn all about frogs and how to save them. Great and lovely to meet you, Kerry, thanks for jumping on the podcast. I am SAVE THE FROGS! Founder and Executive Director, Dr Kerry Kriger. If you’ve got any questions or suggestions for the podcast please tweet them to We’d love to hear from you! Audio Transcript If you enjoy listening please leave us a rating and review on wherever you get your podcasts, it really helps us to get in front of more people! If you can share with your friends that would also be great. You can listen and subscribe to the Conservation Careers Podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Stitcher using the following links, or search for ‘conservation careers’ and you’ll find us! In this fascinating discussion, we talk about his career journey from PhD to establishing the charity and he shares insight into the industry along with some practical tips on how to get your career going. Since establishing SAVE THE FROGS!, Kerry, his staff and volunteers have organised well over 2,000 educational events in at least 57 countries, helping to enact new laws and creating and restoring and protecting critical wetland habitats. Of the seven and a half thousand species of amphibians 50% of declining and one in four are threatened with extinction. Kerry Kriger, the Founder and Executive Director of SAVE THE FROGS! Kerry is a powerhouse in the amphibian world, having set up an organisation to help save threatened frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians across the world.Īnd he’s got his work cut out.
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