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Project 1.1 'Monitoring status and trends of coral reefs of the Great Barrier Reef'
Project 2.2. 'Mangrove and freshwater habitat status of Torres Strait islands'
Project 2.3 'Monitoring the health of Torres Strait coral reefs'

Climate change is expected to significantly affect global terrestrial biodiversity, with 57% of plant and 34% of animal species predicted to lose at least half their climatic ranges by the 2080’s1.

Mareeba Express

17 April 2013


Environmental scientists from James Cook University (JCU) believe they have discovered a new species of native frog on the southern Tableland.

Dr Conrad Hoskin a lecturer at JCU's Townsville campus, along with his team, believe that a population pocket of the Whirring Tree Frog (litoria revelata), pictured right, could be a unique species. Read more

 

Courier Mail

10 August 2012


A SCIENTIFIC expedition will head into rugged north Queensland rainforests next month on a last-ditch mission to find frogs not seen for decades.

The frogs are thought to be extinct but there is some conjecture they may have survived in remote pockets. Read more

 

The Brisbane Institute

12 July 2012


How much frog and reptile diversity is out there? How does this diversity form? How do we discover and describe this diversity? How can we conserve Queensland’s diversity?

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