Grant Award View - GA91848-V2
Securing threatened frogs from bushfire impact
We propose recovery actions for nine priority frogs through on-ground actions. Our primary aim is to secure their persistence in habitats severely impacted by fires. Actions:
1. quantify the extent habitat damage (riparian zones, streams/ponds), and determine whether frogs have persisted at sites post-fire by extensive field surveys;
2. establish mitigation works in association with land management partners to provide resilience to selected frog populations;
3. use field assessments plus population genetics to establish biobanks (frozen gamete repositories and cell lines) where population extinction is predicted (<10y). Our team has extensive information on pre-fire occupancy for all 9 species based on previous and on-going field projects.