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 […]

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 […]

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 […]