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An undertaking like Project Corroboree involves co-ordination and planning between many groups including the recovery team, scientific organisations and science advisors, national parks and wildlife, government, and establishments such as the Amphibian Research Centre and the Melbourne Zoo.

Here we can go behind the scenes and get a glimpse of the operations.

Elizabeth Donald, Frog Princess

Miss Communications Victoria and Miss World Australia Finalist, Elizabeth Donald has just become an official ambassador for Project Corroboree. Elizabeth loves frogs and, if she is crowned Miss World Australia on April 9th, the Corroboree Frog may just get what it needs - a kiss from Australia's nearest thing to a real-life princess.

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Photo album: After the fires

January 2003 saw perhaps the worst fires for more than 60 years in Victoria and New South Wales including the Snowy Mountains. Every known breeding site of the corroboree frog was affected to some extent by the fires. Gerry Marantelli took his camera and went to survey the damage.

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Photo album: Captive-raised tadpoles

Over a 5-year period, the recovery team removed some egg masses from the wild and raised them to tadpole stage at the Amphibian Research Centre in Melbourne. The tadpoles were returned to the identical places on the mountain and released. This photo album documents the journey of those tadpoles.

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Collecting Corroboree Frogs

Written by Gerry Marantelli and Joanne Doherty of the Amphibian Research Centre documenting their trip to the Snowy Mountains to gather eggs for captive breeding of this endangered species. Written in mid 1997.

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Captive Breeding Proposal

Submitted by the Amphibian Research Centre for Recovery Team discussion in late 2001. With the populations ever-decreasing in the wild, is it time to concentrate on the survival of the species in captivity?

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