Enhancing Frog Resilience to Natural Disasters: Determining Captive Husbandry Techniques for the Conservation of Threatened Frogs of the Wet Tropics.
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This two- and half-year project aims to increase the resilience and drastically lower the risk of extinction of eight threatened frog species of north Queensland. The project will achieve this through: (1) Continued monitoring of long-term transects for these species. (2) Increasing our understanding around breeding ecology, environmental needs for survival and breeding, and better understanding the full extent of the impact by continuing to build on the long-term monitoring data. (3) Trialing captive husbandry and breeding with Least Concern, ecologically similar congeners, to greatly improving our ability to rapidly establish captive assurance colonies should the need arise under future environmental stochastic events.
Date
21 May 2025 - 30 Jun 2027
Project Type
N/A
Keywords
Conservation;Frog;Amphibian;Captive Husbandry;Threatened;Extinction
Funding Body
Queensland Government Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (QDETSI)
Amount
410187
Project Team
Conrad Hoskin