Frog Atlas

By assuming that healthy habitats provide suitable conditions for diverse and abundant frog populations, we can make a simple assessment of the health of our waterways. Unhealthy or degraded habitats have few or no frogs present. The Atlas provides information on which waterways have frogs, which may be used by land managers to determine areas that need protection or rehabilitation.

Each record builds on what we know about the sorts of places different frogs occur. By comparing the results from year to year we can find out whether a species is becoming more or less common over time. This can help in trying to work out what should be done to conserve our frog populations.

The Frog Atlas provides a portal for the public collection of frog distribution data, with this information then being fed into state fauna and environmental management databases e.g. Department for Environment and Heritage and Department for Water and Land Biodiversity Conservation.

The second stage of the Frog Atlas is currently under development, but please check back in early November to see how things are progressing.