Stand Up For Corroboree Frog is a photograph by Miroslava Jurcik which was uploaded on November 6th, 2016.
Stand Up For Corroboree Frog
The Stand up for Corroboree Frog was a sign carried by Zoo staff infront of the track pulling the light sculpture of the frog.... more
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Stand Up For Corroboree Frog
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Miroslava Jurcik
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The Stand up for Corroboree Frog was a sign carried by Zoo staff infront of the track pulling the light sculpture of the frog.
And with that the promise to safe this beautiful and amazing frog.
High up in the sub-alpine bogs of the Snowy Mountains lives one of Australia’s most iconic and rarest creatures, the Southern Corroboree Frog (Pseudophryne corroboree). This small, vividly-coloured species is restricted to Kosciuszko National Park, in the south-east of New South Wales. Found only at altitudes above 1300 metres, this species historically had a range of 400km2.
The species has declined steadily since the mid-1980s, and there may now be as few as 50 adult Southern Corroboree Frogs left in the wild.
The most recent surveys have detected only 15 calling males across all historic and reintroduction sites. No breeding was recorded in 2013. With its ongoing decline and the small population remaining it’s likely that without human intervention the species will become extinct in the very near future.
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Rainbow Artist Orlando L
Beautiful capture of this lovely light sculpture!! The story about their extinction in near future is very sad. hope we can do something to save these iconic frogs!! L/F