Wallum Froglets Found On Construction Project (Sunshine Coast, Queensland)

We love our Environmental Works. Some of our most interesting projects involve fauna that we wouldn’t usually encounter. These little guys and gals are wallum froglets. They are ground-dwelling frogs native to the East Coast of Australia and we have encountered them on a few of our Sunshine Coast projects.

We have invested many hours of relocating, revegetating and ensuring that these protected species (and many others) do not lose more of their limited breeding areas. We have been involved with some innovative ways of getting the projects to leave a better environment than before we arrived and are very proud of the successful outcomes.

You can learn more about wallum froglets here.

Fun Facts About Wallum Froglets

• This species is confined to acid paperbark swamps in wallum country
• Males make a high pitched squeaking noise and call at any time of the year, when water is available
• Males normally call from hidden positions in grass, while floating in the water
• Breeding happens mostly during autumn and winter and occurs in large swamps and temporary ponds fringing the swamp
• Eggs are laid singly on twigs and leaves in still water
• Tadpoles are brown with arched tail fins, reaching almost 40 mm in size
• Tadpole development takes nearly 6 months, with metamorph frogs ranging from 6–11 mm

Not So Fun Fact About Wallum Froglets

• The swamps that these frogs inhabit are coming under increasing threat by urbanisation

This not-so-fun fact is why we need to do everything we can to protect these little guys while we still can, and why Smart Nine are proud to be involved with the protection of the Wallum Froglet.