October, 2021. IN early September 2021, a team of QFS volunteers travelled to Kroombit Tops to install a pig-proof fence around an area of tinkerfrog breeding habitat heavily impacted by pigs. Working in difficult terrain, QFS volunteers successfully constructed a 170-metre-long wire fence, weighed down with rocks and boulders to prevent pigs... READ MORE.
Applications are open for the 2022 Ric Nattrass Research Grant. One grant of $1,500 is available for research on QLD frogs. Hurry, applications close 11 February 2022.READ MORE AND APPLY.
Not sure how to tell the difference between frogs and cane toads? Check out this brochure, which helps you to 'be toadally sure' if you have a cane toad or a native frog. Check out the brochure here!
With the assistance of SEQ Catchments, we have developed an online tool allowing our Members to map the locations of frogs they have found which will help to contribute to our knowledge of species presence/absence and population data!
If you're a Member, you can check it out and contribute here!
The laws and permits regulating the keeping of frogs and tadpoles is changed in QLD from August 2020 Click here for details.
Our aims are to encourage and foster an interest in frogs, to provide expert assistance and education for newcomers and undertake a continuous survey of the local native species to determine their relative abundance and distribution.
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 May 2020. The QLD Frog Society has released a new interactive educational tool on our website for Members and children! Explore the habitat of 11 south-east QLD frog species...
This year’s winner of our 2020 Ric Nattrass Research Grant is Colin Hird of the school of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland. Coen is conducting his Ph.D on investigating the...
14 October 2019 We are excited to announce the QLD Frog Society was successfully awarded a Community Sustainability Action Grant by the QLD Government for three threatened frog species! Over...
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