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Title: Frogs


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  • Frogs Conservation

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Frog conservation
  • With over 210 frog species and new species still
    being discovered, Australia is classed as a
    significant centre of amphibian diversity.
    However, frogs are declining due to
  • Habitat destruction/degradation
  • Water quality
  • Pollution
  • Sedimentation
  • Stream erosion
  • Ultraviolet B radiation
  • Introduced species
  • Disease
  • Climate change/global warming

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Classification of conservation status
  • Conservation status categories relating to
    Australian frogs include
  • Extinct (3 species in Australia)
  • Critically endangered (15 species)
  • Endangered
  • (18 species including the Growling Grass Frog)
  • Vulnerable (11 species)
  • Near threatened (8 species)
  • Data deficient

www.ecolinc.vic.edu.au
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How can we conserve frog species?
  • Create frog habitat
  • Build a frog pond
  • Manage frog habitats by not altering water
    patterns, maintaining native vegetation,
    excluding grazing by livestock, controlling
    pollution and invasive plant and animal species
  • Reduce greenhouse gas and ozone emissions
  • Prevent the spread of disease by not relocating
    frogs, tadpoles and plants from one area to
    another

www.ecolinc.vic.edu.au
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Ecolincs stormwater wetland was created to
naturally filter stormwater and to create habitat
for frogs and other aquatic species.
In 2007, a Growling Grass Frog was located in
the Ecolinc wetland and recorded on the DSE
database.
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Pads present on digits
Back distinctly warty
Distinct dorso-lateral fold Frog predominantly
green
Pupils horizontal
Tympanum/ear distinct
Growling Grass Frog at Ecolinc (Litoria
raniformis)
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