Volunteers in Russia have patrolled a road just outside St. Petersburg looking for frogs and toads heading across the asphalt towards their spawning sites in a nearby body of water, picking them up and carrying them onto the grass, where they wouldn't be hit by cars.
There usually aren't that many on this particular section of the road in the Sestroretsk Bog natural reserve, but the relatively slow traffic still killed up to 1,000 toads, the St. Petersburg Zoological Institute said.
Volunteers have been helping carry toads and frogs across the road since 2016.
Depending on weather conditions, this work begins in mid-April and continues for a month or two, with more than 700 volunteers taking part every year.
