The kungaka represents an ancient lineage from when Australia was wetter. Today, it survives in a sheltered desert gorge.
- Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW
Citizen science relies on people like you. Here are five projects where science lives beyond the lab.
Threatened frogs aren’t just found in national parks – citizen scientists are finding them throughout private land too.
Floods can be more damaging to frogs than bushfires, new research shows. Floods wash away eggs and habitat, and could spread devastating fungal pathogens.
New research examines how citizen science data contributes to decisions by governments and conservation organisations about which species are at risk of extinction, and how they can be conserved.
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species.
Australia has almost 1.8 million farm dams – and some are home to threatened frog species
Introduced species and diseases can drive native species into smaller environmental niches – and that could mean change to how we work to conserve them.
Thousands of sick and dead frogs are turning up around Australia, bizarrely lying out in the open. If you see one, let these scientists know.
It’s typically rare to see a dead frog. Yet, we’ve received a flurry of emails from people coming across them in this truly unusual, and tragic, mass death event.
Not all frogs ‘ribbit’ — some sound like a motorbike changing gears or a tennis ball being hit. This summer, keep your eyes and ears out for these Aussie frogs.
Some 45 frog species, included some rare and threatened, were recorded calling after the fires.
The Kaputar rock skink is thought to have have one of the smallest ranges of any reptile in New South Wales – at the summit of a single extinct volcano, Mount Kaputar.
After the bushfires, we went looking for endangered corroboree frogs. Normally, they respond to our calls. But at some sites, the ponds were silent.
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