{"product_id":"pond-frog-pendant","title":"Pool Frog Pendant","description":"\u003cp\u003e100% recycled sterling silver with keum boo (gold foil) and oxidised detail. 16\" sterling silver trace chain included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePool Frogs are easily identifiable by their lime green back stripe (here represented in real gold ).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey prefer a warm, sunlit pool with gentle banks - Norfolk's 'Pingo Ponds' (a series of shallow dimples created by ice age melt-back) are ideal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut over time, expansion of building and agricultural projects - and interbreeding with the more prolific marsh frogs - has meant a huge disappearance of numbers and any suitable habitat sites across the UK- and the Pool Frog is rapidly declining as a result.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were officially declared extinct in 1995 - due to habitat loss - but a reintroduction scheme using Swedish pool frogs that were almost identical genetically to those we previously had in the UK, was introduced to try and bring them back - but recovery is very slow and known dispersal currently confined to Norfolk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFun fact: male frogs make a loud noise like a rotating rusty wheel during mating season.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barham Designs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52544683475276,"sku":"","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/2747\/4508\/files\/frogpendant.jpg?v=1749484410","url":"https:\/\/barhamdesigns.com\/products\/pond-frog-pendant","provider":"Barham Designs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}