‘You just hope for the best’: rarely seen froglets – the length of a grain of rice – released into small patch of Victorian wilds
by Petra Stock from on (#6VQRA)
Exclusive: More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs set free in a high-altitude forest to bolster dwindling population
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More than 3,000 critically endangered Baw Baw frogs have been released in Victoria's east as part of a record-breaking conservation breeding program.
Zoos Victoria's reintroduction of 3,000 tiny froglets and 40 adult frogs into the high-altitude forests of the Baw Baw plateau, about 120km east of Melbourne, was the largest in its breeding program for the species.
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