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The frogs.org.au media archive project collects newspaper and magazine articles that have featured the Amphibian Research Centre or any of its projects. This is the section for Melbourne Water Frog Census but, using the media archive search, you may access the entire archive. This is an ongoing project - we will be adding articles from both the past and the future.
Most recent articles
Presented below are the most recent articles (according to published date) in this project's section of the archive.
Kew jumper is one out of the box
Progress Leader - Tuesday, September 6, 2005.
Written by Natalie White
For its report on the latest Melbourne Water Frog Census, the Progress Leader focuses on the discovery of a new population of Dwarf Tree Frogs in Melbourne. Readers are informed how to identify these frogs and encouraged to report findings to the Amphibian Research Centre.
Centre manager Gerry Marantelli said the frogs posed an environmental threat to local amphibians through disease or competing for food and water.
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Frog census a great leap forward for local amphibians, but stranger danger lurks
The Age - Friday, August 19, 2005.
Written by Stephen Cauchi
The Age reports good and bad news for Melbourne's frogs based on the results of the latest Melbourne Water Frog Census.
The good news is that some rare species of frogs are re-establishing themselves in the suburbs. The bad news is that two colonies of an inter-state species could pose a threat to their local cousins.
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The frog that can't jump bounces back
The Australian - Friday, August 19, 2005.
Written by Natasha Robinson
A record number of volunteers have taken part in the Melbourne Water Frog Census that has recorded the existence in Melbourne of a tiny and rare species that cannot jump - the Southern Toadlet.
Rather than being threatened by polluted waterways like many other frogs, it is the drought that is a major cause of the southern toadlet's diminishing numbers.
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