In your garden
Make your garden frog friendly. Frogs like fresh water. Keep your frogs happy with water in your garden. Watering systems around your garden for plants can be great. A bird bath may be popular with treefrogs.
- Plant native shrubs and trees that will attract wildlife and provide shelter and a safe home for frogs.
- Use natural mulch on garden beds.
- Create a compost heap which is great for insects, a frogs favorite food.
- Use rocks and logs around your garden and place leaves and fallen branches on your garden beds to break down naturally.
A few handy hints to build and maintain your own thriving frog pond:
Around your house
Reduce your carbon footprint, to consume less energy, stop polluting and start recycling
Reduce your use of pesticides, insecticides, fertilizers and detergents and try to use natural alternatives in your home and garden to prevent water running into drains becoming contaminated and harming native frogs in the wild.
- Be a responsible pet owner:
- Keep cats indoors or in a special outdoor run, especially at night.
- Keep dogs on a lead when walking.
- Keep dogs contained in a secure fenced area when at home.
- Get your pets de-sexed and microchipped and make sure they wear an identifying collar.
- Don’t tip chemicals down the sink and don’t wash your car with chemicals, they all end up in the local waterways and kill frogs.
Out and about
When out in the rainforest or near creeks try to minimise your impact on these areas because this is a natural home for many native frogs.
Worried about a frog?
- Try not to handle frogs, if you need to help always wash your hands first and keep your hands wet when you pick up a frog.
- If it is uninjured and needs no further help, ie it’s become lost in your house simply place it in your garden in amongst vegetation.
- If you are concerned about a frog, place it in a plastic container with air holes and a small amount of water to keep it moist. Keep it in a cool place and call the Frog Hospital for further advice and assistance.
- Cairns Frog Hospital:
Help protect frog habitat – Send a FrogE-card
- Send a FrogE-card
- Pick up a copy of the ARFs Frog Fun Activity Book for a gold coin donation to Operation Leap Frog.
- Buy an Operation Leap Frog T-shirt
- Visit the ARF Gift Shop in Cairns or online
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