Australia's Museum launches citizen science project to save endangered frog species

Australia has me its first national frog count a national 'citizen science project' and invited people to contribute towards saving one of most threatened and 'really important' groups of animals on planet.

Australian Museums’ citizen project, ‘FrogID’ gives people opportunity to t only count animals but also discover a brand new species. initiative uses mobile phone techlogy and “audio DNA” to locate where frogs are endangered and how it can be conserved along with waterways. 

According to reports, museum hopes that FrogID app would be downloed by at least one million Australians who will n he to nearby parks, creeks, dams, or even wetlands to look for frogs. stats as per official website reveal that till w, project has received over 134,200 calls that verified 203,281 frogs and 197 species have alrey been discovered.

This is first-ever citizen science project launched by Australian Museum with support of Government’s Citizen Science Grants and IBM Australia’s Impact Grants program and in collaboration with various or museums.

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Why Frogs Count?

In a recent televised interview with ABC, Jodi Rowley, Curator of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Biology with Australian Museum, explained that frogs remain “really important” to food chain as y consume a lot of insects and are eaten by many animals. Australia currently has more than 240 kwn species of frog, almost all of m are t even found anywhere else in world. 

However, while some species are flourishing such as Striped March Frog, ors have drastically declined since 1980s. Four, have even become extinct. Thus, FrogID, national citizen science project is aimed to help researchers enhance ir understanding of country’s frog population along with monitoring ir distributions over time.

project has called people to get involved eir by eir downloing FrogID app and get on field or by discovering citizens scientist submissions by species and location.

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