in 2019 the QLD Frog Society applied for and were successful in receiving a grant to fund essential monitoring of threatened frog species at Kroombit Tops National Park, east of Biloela.
Over $70k of funding provided through the QLD Government’s Community Sustainability Action Grant was provided for three years of monitoring the critically endangered Kroombit Tinkerfrog (Taudactylus pleione), critically endangered Kroomibt Treefrog (Litoria kroombitensis) and vulnerable Tusked Frog (Adelotus brevis). Additionally, the funding provides for the supply and installation of a pig exclusion fence around selected Kroombit Tinkerfrog habitat.
Once considered common on the escarpment of the national park, the Kroombit Tinkerfrog in particular has suffered extensive declines and is now restricted to several rocky streams and seepage lines below the escarpment.
Critically endangered
Kroombit Tinkerfrog
Credit: Dr Ed Meyer
To date, QFS has undertaken six trips to Kroombit Tops where volunteers under the direction of the project’s Coordinator, Dr Ed Meyer and Harry Hines of QPWS have undertaken extensive monitoring of the existing threatened frog populations, collecting updated data for lesser-known populations, deployed dozens of audio acoustic devices to record frog calls, collected local temperature and humidity data, tested for Chyrtid fungus presence and assisted with the collection of breeding animals for the captive husbandry breeding program at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary.
Keen froggers at Kroombit Tops 
An audio acoustic device being inspected. 
QFS volunteers constructing the pig-proof fence. 
The finished fence, with rocks and boulders weighing down the wire ‘skirt’. 
In late 2022, QFS were granted permission for a final Frogsearch trip to Kroombit Tops in early 2023 to capture further data and assist in the release of captive-bred animals from Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary to support the existing small wild population.
To express your interest in volunteering, or to enquire further, please contact Jono at events_initiatives [at] qldfrogs.asn.au
Forest in mist.
Credit: Dr Ed Meyer
