Dailan Pugh says protecting the endangered species, only identified in 2004 ‘is not rocket science’
Pugh's mountain frog, named after conservationist Dailan Pugh, is listed as endangered under federal environment laws but the Forestry Corporation of NSW is still logging the small area where it lives.Pugh's mountain frog, named after conservationist Dailan Pugh, is listed as endangered under federal environment laws but the Forestry Corporation of NSW is still logging the small area where it lives.
It was named after Pugh in honour of his efforts to conserve its habitat in the boggy streams and soaks of the Gibraltar Range and Timbarra Plateau, near Tenterfield. “These frogs have got to have permanent moisture. But when you log the surrounding forest you get all this thirsty regrowth that just pumps all the water into the atmosphere and dries up the landscape,” Pugh said.
That’s “grossly inadequate” for an animal that’s often tucked away in watery underground chambers, according to the conservationist.
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