ABOUT CHIRP

CHIRP is a non-profit organization consisting of environmentalists, animal protectionists, frog lovers, nurserymen, and others opposed to a Frog War in Hawaii. 

CHIRP considers the coqui frogs an immigrant species in Hawaii, well suited to the tropics, and supplied with an overabundance of insects to eat.  Like it or not, they are here to stay, like many other alien species that have come to Hawaii, including the loved gecko.

While environmentalists in some parts of the world are struggling to save tree frogs, some so-called environmentalists here in Hawaii are struggling to kill them.

These people, mostly professional exterminators working for various government agencies, wish to “cleanse” Hawaii of all “undesirable” aliens, and they consider the frogs undesirable because they do not like the sound of their mating song.  And irrational and strange as it sounds coming from environmentalists, they propose waging chemical warfare against the frogs.  Further, this will include experimenting with the people, environment, plants and animals of Hawaii by using extremely concentrated and toxic levels of caffeine as a pesticide, something that has never been tried before in history.  Casualties of this war could include endangered insects, birds, bats, marine mammals, and even children and pets.  And they still want this war knowing that it may only reduce the numbers of frogs, not eradicate them, since eradication is impossible, according to the Department of Agriculture and coqui experts. 

Meanwhile, negative propaganda against the frogs has been spread to justify this Frog War, poisoning the minds of Hawaii’s citizens and creating a frog mania that has spread faster than the frogs.  And since the frogs cannot be eradicated, this mania, the frogs, and the ongoing poisoning of the environment will not go away.

This is what CHIRP is trying to stop.  Whether or not you like the frogs is a personal issue.  But the response to their presence should be acceptance.  In the end, we have no choice.      

If you would like more information about CHIRP or wish to help us save Hawaii from frog mania, contact us.