Reviving Urban Ecosystems - one backyard at a time.
Froggy Forts are SymSyn’s consumer-facing habitat units designed to reconnect people with nature and help indicator species recover across urban and suburban environments. These microhabitats bring clean water, moisture, shade, and refuge back into the places where millions of people live — transforming backyards, balconies, schoolyards, and neighborhoods into ecological assets.
Small habitats with big ecological purpose.
Frogs are indicator species, meaning their presence reflects the health of the environment. When frogs thrive, it’s a sign that the ecosystem is recovering.
Froggy Forts recreate the essential conditions frogs need:
- clean, stable water
- moisture and cooling
- safe resting and hiding spaces
- insect-attracting lights that provide a reliable food source
Each Fort turns an ordinary outdoor space into a place where wildlife can thrive - proving that anyone can help restore nature at home.
What Froggy Forts provide.
Water & Microclimate Support
Clean, stable water, shade, moisture, and cooling - critical conditions that native frogs and small wildlife need to survive.
Safe Refuge
Shelter from predators, hiding spaces, and moisture-rich resting spots that mimic natural habitat structures.
Citizen Science Ready
Optional smart features allow families, students, and enthusiasts to capture observations, take part in data collection, and connect to the NatureTV Live network.
Backyard restoration that scales to cities.
You don’t need a large yard or scientific training. A single Froggy Fort can support frogs, insects, and moisture-loving plants - but when thousands participate, entire neighborhoods become ecological corridors. This is how we revive urban ecosystems: house by house, school by school, city by city.
Before - Suburban Community
Typical suburban yards: green, tidy, and ecologically empty.
After - Suburban Community
Small changes in a few yards begin to build real ecological corridors.
Small Frogs - Small Space
Even a balcony can become a tiny oasis for wildlife.
Smart Froggy Forts connect to SymSyn’s global frog-observation network.
Smart Froggy Forts include cameras and microphones that let families and citizen scientists observe frogs up close and share their footage with a global community. While they do not include environmental sensors, they serve as lightweight “mini Eco-Buoy” nodes - helping SymSyn track frog presence, behavior, and seasonal patterns across urban and suburban areas. This data strengthens our understanding of indicator species in everyday environments.
For families, classrooms, nature lovers, schools, and citizen scientists.
Froggy Forts help children learn ecology hands-on, give teachers outdoor science labs, empower homeowners to support biodiversity, and let nature enthusiasts witness the magic of frogs up close. It’s an easy, meaningful way to bring wildlife back to the places where people live.
A global community restoring nature - one backyard at a time.
Froggy Forts aren’t just backyard habitats- they’re part of a growing worldwide restoration network. As families install Forts across neighborhoods, cities, states, and even other countries, millions of tiny ecological sanctuaries begin to link together like small lights on a map.
Through the Froggy Forts App, people everywhere can share images of frogs visiting their Forts, celebrate the return of wildlife to their yards, and watch as microhabitats spring back to life.
Kids in San Diego can see frogs from Toronto… families in Australia can share their backyard visitors with classrooms in Ohio… and households across the globe can watch biodiversity return in real time.
These backyard habitats don’t stand alone. Each one becomes a mini ecological beacon, connecting to larger restoration initiatives through NatureTV Live and SymSyn’s Eco-Buoy system. Together, they create a distributed ecological network - grassroots at the household level, powerful at the regional and global scale.
This is how we rebuild ecosystems:
- House by house.
- School by school.
- City by city.
- Nation by nation.
Every Froggy Fort installed is another point of hope on the global map - another step toward making conservation visible, measurable, and shared with the world.
Start your backyard restoration journey.