Frogs but no kisses for TV's Carol Vorderman at Bristol Zoo
TV star Carol Vorderman has opened a new amphibian breeding sanctuary at Bristol Zoo.
Called the AmphiPod, the facility is home to two of the world's most endangered frog species – lemur leaf frogs and golden mantella frogs. Both species are listed as "critically endangered" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species.
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Star: Carol Vorderman
The AmphiPod provides the perfect conditions to allow the rare frogs to breed, in an effort to help save the species from extinction.
Miss Vorderman, 49, who co-hosted Channel 4's Countdown for 26 years and has two children at Clifton College, supported the Zoo in its 2008 Year of the Frog campaign to help raise awareness about, and prevent, the extinction threat facing thousands of amphibian species all over the world.
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Through fundraising efforts as part of the campaign, Bristol Zoo raised enough money to build the AmphiPod to breed endangered amphibians.
Miss Vorderman said: "I love Bristol Zoo and my mum lives very close by, so I can often hear the monkeys and the exotic birds."
Dr Bryan Carroll, deputy director of the zoo, added: "Our AmphiPod has been built following a lot of hard work, fundraising and fantastic support, and we are immensely grateful for that."
Comments
by South Gloucestershire Dan, South Glos.
Friday, June 04 2010, 11:31PM
“Derek - she fell out of my favour when she started hawking "homeowner loans" at a massive APR and encouraged those who could least afford it to borrow stupid amounts of money. What a sell out.”
by derek, Wass in Briz
Friday, June 04 2010, 8:33PM
“Isn`t it strange. When you have a story about a lovely,super talented lady on here,it seems to bring out all the TALENTLESS dumbheads crawling out of the woodwork to show their jealousy.”
by South Gloucestershire Dan, South Glos.
Friday, June 04 2010, 7:54PM
“Here's a conundrum for you Carol:
SLOBLOCK”
by gas65, whitchurch
Friday, June 04 2010, 7:09PM
“Here's a conundrum for you Carol.
youarewellfit”
by Farouk Shabal, Bristol
Friday, June 04 2010, 5:12PM
“Here's a conundrum for you Carol.
Untalneted”
by Mr Smith, Bristol
Friday, June 04 2010, 1:50PM
“Both me and my wife think Mrs Voderman is wonderful.
On television, she displayed an uncanny knack of turning all the cards over correctly and her knowledge of arithmetic was second to none.
We think that the zoological gardens should employ her to add up the number of the frogs that exists, that way they'll be sure to be right.”
by Farouk Shabal, Bristol
Friday, June 04 2010, 1:18PM
“I dislike Carol Vorderman and her bland ways. It's lovely to know that one can put cut out letters and numbers on a magnetic board for 26 years and allow one's children to soil biscuits with our future leaders at Mallory Towers.
Where were Strachan, Uhlenbrook and Packham when they needed a legitimate opening. Was it mum's visiting day for Carol?”