Corroboree Frog Recovery Team annual meeting wrap-up

Friday, 06 August 2010 06:50

A corroboree frog tadpole transforming into a frog. Photo: Amphibian Research Centre.

The Corroboree Frog Recovery Team had their annual meeting this week in Queanbeyan to talk about everything related to saving the Corroboree Frogs.

People from all the major project partners attended for the two-day meeting. The first day of the meeting focused on the results of the captive breeding program.

All the people involved in captive breeding gave an update on the results of the last breeding season. The great news is that we had successful breeding in almost all of the breeding facilities and much more success overall than previous years.

Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve’s northern corroboree frogs produced 442 eggs and Taronga Zoo has 143 southern corroboree frog tadpoles and 270 northern corroboree frog tadpoles swimming around.

Over the coming months it will be exciting to watch the tadpoles change into little corroboree frogs.

Unfortunately we also had a few set-backs with frogs getting sick and temperature control problems. We have identified the cause of much of the illness in the frogs and have made changes to the facilities to fix these. We are also installing better temperature control systems in some of the facilities and high-tech temperature alarm systems to prevent any more of these problems in the future.

Thanks to the teamwork of all the captive breeding facilities - Taronga Zoo, Amphibian Research Centre, Melbourne Zoo, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve and Healesville Sanctuary – we are excited about the wonderful progress we are making in saving this important species!