Margaret River Independent School students donated $468.70 to Perth Zoo, after a w-hopping fundraising effort for White-bellied Frogs.
The students designed and sold T-shirts that would make Fashion Week green with envy, featuring the critically endangered White-bellied Frog, and donated the proceeds to Perth Zoo.
Our frogs are facing the single biggest species extinction crisis since the age of dinosaurs, with egg nests heavily preyed on in the wild.
To give native frogs the head-start they need, the Zoo’s Native Species Breeding Program collects frog egg nests from the wild and rears them in the safety of Perth Zoo for 12 months.
Once they’ve grown, they’re released back into the wild, and now three native species of frogs have been jumping up in numbers!
Since we started this important work, we’ve released;
- 1372 white-bellied frogs
- 845 orange-bellied frogs
- 281 sunset frogs
120 critically endangered White-bellied frogs are also currently maturing through the program – a huge leap for conservation.
This work is made possible with the help of our friends from Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attraction’s Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia and Biodiversity Conservation Science teams.
There’s always more to do, but with the support of budding conservationists like these students, we’d say there’s ‘hoppy’ days ahead!
Thank you to this Margaret River Independent School group for making our state a Zoo-per place to be, for creatures great and small!
Find out more about Perth Zoo’s extensive work with native frogs
here.