{"id":1449,"date":"2010-10-26T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2010-10-26T15:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T04:09:45","slug":"video-behind-the-scenes-at-tarongas-corroboree-frog-conservation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/video-behind-the-scenes-at-tarongas-corroboree-frog-conservation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Behind the scenes at Taronga&#8217;s Corroboree Frog conservation program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1468\" title=\"Corroboree-Frog_credit-Lorinda-Taylor\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree-Frog_credit-Lorinda-Taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree-Frog_credit-Lorinda-Taylor.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree-Frog_credit-Lorinda-Taylor-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Corroboree-Frog_credit-Lorinda-Taylor-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The striking Southern Corroboree Frog, endemic to alpine NSW. Image: Lorinda Taylor\/Taronga Zoo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/tiny-frogs-struggle-for-survival\/\" target=\"_blank\">we wrote<\/a> about the Southern Corroboree Frog conservation program led by staff at Taronga Zoo. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of the tiny, striking amphibians once inhabited the spongy sphagnum bogs of the Kosciuszko highlands in NSW, but as a result of the deadly chytrid fungus, there are now fewer that 80 breeding couples left in the wild. When we asked Taronga for an update about the breeding program&#8217;s progress, they sent us this amazing video. Watch it for a rare look up-close with one of the alpine region&#8217;s unique species.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PdBjPYrjOzs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PdBjPYrjOzs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year we wrote about the Southern Corroboree Frog conservation program led by staff at Taronga Zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-conservation","category-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}