Frogs survive a bit longer on the Sunshine Coast

The Courier Mail reported on Wednesday 13/10/2010 about how the Wallum rocket frog and it's mate the Wallum froglet got to survive a bit longer around the Sunshine Coast.  The Queensland Dept of Environmental Resource Management has conditionally approved a 8000 dwelling community, so long as public transport corridors do not cut through Birtinya Wetlands.  Here we have the precautionary principle at work protecting the habitiat of the Wallum frog family.  The frogs are listed as vulnerable by the DERM

The frogs live in acid paperbark swamps in SE Qld and NE NSW.  Anyone who knows Australia will know this covers the Sunshine coast and the Gold Coast, not exactly hotbeds of environmental concern.

Wallum froglet info