We can help bring back native wildlife to the suburbs and encourage native birds, lizards, frogs and insects into our own backyards by simply providing a wildlife friendly garden. Urban development has destroyed much of the bush regions that our native wildlife depends upon for food and shelter.The suburban backyard is typically manicured lawns with very few trees and the …
Frog Friendly Back Yard
For more than 200 million years frogs have survived. They were around well before the dinosaur, and have managed to endure dramatic climatic shifts – from ice ages to global warming. But today the chorus often heard by many as a child is silent. Those spring nights filled with the sounds of many a hopeful soul, croaking his heart out …
Fungi Fatal to our Frogs
Australian scientists think they may have the answer to what has been mysteriously mass killing our frogs over the past twenty years – an aquatic chytrid fungi, yet to be named. So far, 10 different species of frog, covering four States have now succumbed and departed because of this deadly disease. Intensive studies began two decades ago in Queensland, when …