Useful links and frog resources

Useful links

• The Frogs Australia Network hosted by Zoos Victoria has a wealth of information about and their conservation.
• The James Cook University Amphibian Diseases website contains information on the Chytrid fungus and all the latest news on research into the disease.
• The Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force website is an international site with links to other frog sites and useful information on frog declines worldwide.
• The Frog and Tadpole Study Group (FATS) website has general frog information, together with details of upcoming meetings and activities, cane toad alert program, frog profiles and displays. It's also the home of the Frog Rescue Service.
• The Taronga Zoo Frog Focus website has useful information on frogs and frog conservation in general.
• The Amphibian Research Centre website is run by the Victorian Frog Group. It has information and articles on frogs in Victoria, including upcoming events and contacts.
• The Frog Decline Reversal Project website has information on the Cairns Frog Hospital, the decline of frogs in Northern Australia and tips on frog keeping as well as lots of other general frog information
• The Frog Census in South Australia aims to get a 'snapshot' of the distribution and abundance of the frogs in South Australia, through volunteer surveys in Frog Week each September.
• The World Wide Fund for Nature has lots of Australian frog information on its Frogs! website.

Further reading

• Why frogs and other animals are harmed when people collect bush rock for their gardens (NPWS online information)
• Cane toads in NSW (NPWS online information)
• NPWS hygiene protocol for the control of disease in frogs (PDF - 1.6MB)
• 'Frog ponds' on the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency website
• 'Making your dam "wildlife friendly"' on the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency website
• 'A field guide to Australian frogs' (book by J Barker, G Grigg and M Tyler, 1995, Surrey Beatty and Sons. Sydney).
• 'A field guide to frogs of South Eastern Australia' (book by M Robinson, 1994). See more details and buy online at the Australian Museum website.
• 'Attracting frogs to your garden' (book by K Casey, 1995). See more details and buy online at the Australian Museum website.
• 'Australian frogs. A natural history' (book by M Tyler, 1999). See more details and buy online at the South Australian Museum website
• 'Frog calls of North-Eastern NSW' (cassette by D Stewart). See more details and order a cassette from the Nature Sound website.
• 'Frog calls of the Sydney Basin' (cassette by D Stewart). See more details and order a cassette from the Nature Sound website.
• 'Green guide to frogs of Australia' (book by G Swan, 2001). See more details and buy online at the Australian Museum website.
• 'Reptiles and amphibians of Australia' (book by H Cogger, 2000). See more details and buy online at Australian Museum website.
• 'Tadpoles of South-Eastern Australia' (book by M Anstis, 2002). See more details and buy online at the Australian Museum website.

• Frogs
• Hygiene protocol for the control of disease in frogs (PDF - 1.6MB)
• Giant burrowing frog - species profile (PDF - 1.1MB)
• Green and golden bell frog - draft recovery plan
• Green and golden bell frog - species profile (PDF - 572KB)
• Painted burrowing frog - recovery plan (PDF - 297KB)
• Peppered frog - recovery plan (PDF - 779KB)
• Red-crowned toadlet - species profile (PDF - 643KB)
• Southern bell frog - draft recovery plan (PDF - 1.3MB)
• Southern corroboree frog - recovery plan (PDF - 576KB)
• Southern corroboree frog - species profile (PDF - 775KB)
• Spotted tree frog - recovery plan (PDF - 436KB)
• Spotted tree frog - species profile (PDF - 686KB)
• Yellow-spotted bell frog - recovery plan (PDF - 779KB)
• Alpine tree frog - endangered species listing
• Booroolong Frog - endangered species listing
• Crinia sloanei - proposed vulnerable species listing
• Fleay's barred frog - endangered species listing
• Giant barred frog - endangered species listing
• Giant burrowing frog - vulnerable species listing
• Glandular frog - vulnerable species listing
• Green-thighed frog - vulnerable species listing
• Green and golden bell frog - endangered species listing
• Infection of frogs by amphibian chytrid causing the disease chytridiomycosis - key threatening process listing
• Litoria daviesae (a tree frog) - vulnerable species listing
• Littlejohn's tree frog - vulnerable species listing
• Loveridge's frog - endangered species listing
• Mountain frog - endangered species listing
• Northern corroboree frog - vulnerable species listing
• Olongburra frog - vulnerable species listing
• Painted burrowing frog - endangered species listing
• Peppered frog - vulnerable species listing
• Philoria pughi (a frog) - endangered species listing
• Philoria richmondensis (a frog) - endangered species listing
• Pouched frog - vulnerable species listing
• Red-crowned toadlet - vulnerable species listing
• Southern bell frog - endangered species listing
• Southern corroboree frog - endangered species listing
• Sphagnum frog - vulnerable species listing
• Spotted tree frog - endangered species listing
• Stuttering frog - endangered species listing
• Tusked frog population, Nandewar and New England Tablelands bioregions - endangered population listing
• Wallum froglet - vulnerable species listing
• Yellow-spotted bell frog - endangered species listing
• 'Resort Roundup' - Issue 10, December 2001
• Frogs found in western Sydney
• Call for help to find endangered bell frogs on Southern Tablelands
• Calling all batrachophiles... Frog week is coming
• Cane toads make way for native frogs in Arakwal National Park
• Complete outline of the NSW amphibian licensing system (PDF - 26KB)
• Fatal frog fungus declared a key threat in NSW
• Frog diversity found in Darling Riverine project
• Frog keeper's licence
• Future improving for near extinct frog in Kosciuszko National Park
• Getting an amphibian keeper's licence
• Green and golden bellfrog reintroduced to the Far South Coast near Pambula
• Help frogs survive in the concrete jungle
• Herpetological societies in NSW
• Hop up to Frog Week - NPWS survey of endangered green and golden bell frogs on Central Coast
• Locals to establish Green and Golden Bell Frog colony in Pambula wetlands
• More information
• NPWS warning - do not confuse 'hitch hiking' cane toads with local frogs
• Obtaining and caring for frogs and tadpoles
• Plans proceed to establish green and golden bell frog colony in Pambula wetlands
• Rescue mission to stop endangered frog croaking
• Snowy Region details post-fire recovery projects funded by SnowyHydro
• SnowyHydro and NPWS save spotted tree frog from extinction