For the first time in five years, Northern Corroboree Frogs have been detected in Ginini Flats at the Namadgi National Park.
The ACT government says the sighting of 37 frogs has lifted hopes for the future of the critically endangered species, in rapid decline because of fungal outbreaks and the impact of climate change on their habitat.
Earlier this year, ecologists discovered 16 male Northern Corrobboree Frogs calling at the Ginini Flats Wetland Complex Ramsar Site and 21 frogs in a lower elevation site in Namadgi, where frogs and eggs had been released.
Every year for more than a decade, attempts have been made to restore the Northern Corroboree Frog population by releasing frogs and eggs into the wild.
More about Northern Corroboree Frogs here.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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