Societal values and attitudes: their history and sociological influences on amphibian conservation problems.

This chapter was written by J. W. Gibbons. He talks about the views that society has about amphibians, for example, that some people think that they cause warts, or that they associate them with snakes (or as some people, especially girls, have told me, that they are disgusting, putting and ugly face…). For people to care about amphibian conservation, education is important, especially hands-on experience. One important fact to use in public education is that amphibians are indicators of environmental stress (“canary on the mine”).