White-bellied frog from WA named on most at risk list to croak it

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August White-bellied frog from WA named on most at risk list to croak it White-bellied frog from WA named on most at risk list to croak it 20/08/2021 | 2 MINS A tiny frog from south-west WA thought to have been around for seven million years has been named as one of 26 Australian frog species at greatest risk of extinction in a new research paper released today. Four LIT researchers were included in a team of 29 scientists from universities, government agencies, zoos and museums who took part in the study, published in Pacific Conservation Biology, and coordinated by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the Federal GovernmentΓÇÖs National Environmental Science Program. Co-author Dr Nicki Mitchell, a conservation biologist from LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences, said the only WA amphibian to make the list, the critically endangered white-bellied frog (Geocrinia alba), was now found in only a few square kilometres of viable habitat in the Margaret River region. ΓÇ£We hope that by identifying the 26 frog species most at risk of extinctio

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August White-bellied frog from WA named on most at risk list to croak it White-bellied frog from WA named on most at risk list to croak it 20/08/2021 | 2 MINS A tiny frog from south-west WA thought to have been around for seven million years has been named as one of 26 Australian frog species at greatest risk of extinction in a new research paper released today.

Four LIT researchers were included in a team of 29 scientists from universities, government agencies, zoos and museums who took part in the study, published in Pacific Conservation Biology, and coordinated by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the Federal GovernmentΓÇÖs National Environmental Science Program.

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