(21 May 2025)
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Mendon, New York – 21 March 2025
1. Wide of John Bateman walking near pond
2. Detail of John Bateman moving log to look for amphibians
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"As a child I was fascinated with life. I like to observe birds, mammals, I liked going outside, you know, playing in streams.”
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Mendon, New York – 21 March 2025
4. Various of John Bateman holding a salamander
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"I want future generations to be able to have that connection to wildlife that I did as a child.”
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Mendon, New York – 21 March 2025
6. Wide of John Bateman standing near a vernal pool looking for amphibians
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"And at this point with amphibians, about two out of three of them are vulnerable to going extinct.”
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Mendon, New York – 21 March 2025
8. Cutaway of John Bateman tossing a stone in a vernal pool
9. Cutaway of vernal pool
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"Salamander, the wood frogs, they’re often times going back to the same pond where they were born and they’re going to go there year after year after year after year to reproduce, sometimes entering that body of water at the same spot.”
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Mendon, New York – 21 March 2025
11. Wide of John Bateman looking in vernal pool
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"So unfortunately, with urban sprawl and development a lot of the forests, especially in this part of New York, are being cleared for new housing developments as people move out from the cities and the suburbs.”
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Pittsford, New York – 22 March 2025
13. Wide of cleared area for power poles
14. Various of Margot Fass showing people a vernal pond restoration project on a trail map
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Rochester, New York – 22 March 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Margot Fass, amphibian advocate:
"It’s amazing how few people really know that, for example, frogs are endangered or that a third of them have even gone extinct or are highly threatened.”
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Pittsford, New York – 22 March 2025
16. Wide of people walking along a path at the Robert Corby Arboretum
17. Detail of frog pond sign
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Rochester, New York – 22 March 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Margot Fass, amphibian advocate:
"Amphibians often need cooler temperatures so as the planet warms, say there’s a frog that lives in the mountains, it would go higher and higher in the mountain, but eventually it gets to the top and it can no longer survive.”
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Honeoye Falls, New York – 21 March 2025
19. Various of pond at sunrise
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Honeoye, New York – 28 March 2025
20. Wide of volunteers in road for amphibian crossing
21. Detail of salamander in road
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Mendon, New York – 23 March 2025
22. SOUNDBITE (English) John Bateman, wildlife professor:
"If people don’t take action, right, to prevent that, I think that future generations are absolutely going to be at a loss because of that. To not have those experiences that I did as a child, to have that connection with nature.”
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Honeoye, New York – 28 March 2025
23. Wide of salamander crossing road
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