Frog-friendly gardens
Frogs are fascinating and often secretive animals – we hear them more than we see them!
Australia is home to more than 221 species of frogs, but unfortunately their populations have undergone serious declines in recent decades. A third of species are now listed as threatened worldwide.
Please help by creating frog-friendly habitat in your garden.
Resources to help:
There are many easy and inexpensive ways to attract frogs to the home garden – the hints here will get you started:
https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Frogs/Frog+friendly+gardens
How to make a frog pond by Sustainable Gardening Australia:
summary PDF
Source and additional information: https://www.sgaonline.org.au/frog-ponds/
Watch Costa Georgiadis from Gardening Australia build two different frog habitats
– a frog bog using a fibreglass pond shell and a pond using an old bath tub:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RN7gmW3NQ
ABC Gardening Australia fact sheet for a school frog-bog project:
https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/factsheets/frog-bog/9801490
Reptiles and frogs of North East Victoria – An identification and conservation guide:
https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0030/394068/Frogs-and-Reptiles-NE-Vic-2018_online.pdf