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6Jun

2022 Grant Recipient Announced!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO SHERYN BRODIE, RECIPIENT of the 2022 Ric Nattrass Research Grant! Sheryn is currently undertaking her PhD at James Cook University in Townsville, and she describes her research below. For my PhD research, I am using environmental sound recordings to investigate the chorusing patterns of a community of frogs in North Queensland. Acoustic monitoring […]

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15Jan

December 2021 Kroombit Frogsearch: Our wettest (and leechiest) so far!

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IN EARLY DECEMBER 2021, QFS volunteers travelled to Kroombit Tops National Park to conduct surveys and monitoring as part of our Kroombit Threatened Frogs Project – a three-year project funded through a Community Sustainability Action Grant awarded to QFS by the Queensland State Government. In contrast with previous Kroombit Frogsearches in 2019 and 2020, conditions […]

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15Jan

Kroombit Threatened Frogs Project Update – October 2021

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THE KROOMBIT TINKERFROG (Taudactylus pleione) is one of Australia’s most threatened frog species. Found only at Kroombit Tops National Park, south-west of Gladstone, this critically endangered species faces a number of threats to its survival, including predation and habitat disturbance by feral pigs (see ‘The problem with (feral) pigs’ in the Mid-Autumn 2021 issue of […]

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