IN LATE APRIL, A TEAM of 7 volunteers travelled to Kroombit Tops National Park for the last round of threatened frog surveys and monitoring funded by QFS’s Community Sustainability Action Grant. Conditions during this survey event were cooler than expected and our target species – the critically endangered Kroombit tinker frog and Kroombit treefrog – […]
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 […]
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 […]