IN APRIL THIS YEAR, QFS volunteers returned to Kroombit Tops National Park to conduct further surveys for the critically endangered Kroombit Tinkerfrog (Taudactylus pleione) and Kroombit Treefrog (Litoria kroombitensis) as part of QFS’s Kroombit Threatened Frogs Project – a project funded by the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage’s Community Sustainability Action grant scheme. Despite […]

CONGRATULATIONS TO MICKAYLA HEINEMANN, recipient of the 2021 Ric Nattrass Research Grant! Mickayla is currently undertaking her Honours degree at the University of Southern Queensland, and is researching how methods for surveying frog populations can be improved. She told us that “while there are many techniques that do a great job, they all have limitations, […]

WITH KROOMBIT TOPS MISSING out on the early wet season rain recorded in other parts of the state, conditions during the December 2020 Kroombit Frogsearch were only marginally better/wetter than the previous December Kroombit Frogsearch. In 2019, QFS volunteers assisting with frog surveys had to contend with catastrophic fire conditions (see Frogsheet Autumn 2020). Undeterred […]

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