Article 6YSJW Hundreds of endangered frogs have survived after reintroduction to the wild in Victoria – video

Hundreds of endangered frogs have survived after reintroduction to the wild in Victoria – video

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Captive-bred critically endangered frogs are managing to survive after being released at a mountain stream near Mount Beauty in Victoria, with some small frogs found about a kilometre from where they were dropped off. More than 600 spotted tree frogs have so far joined dwindling wild populations in the Kiewa River system, as part of a Zoos Victoria conservation breeding program designed to boost numbers and genetic diversity after 50% of the frog's habitat was severely burnt in the 2019-20 black summer bushfires

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