How learning to listen to Canberra's frogs can help save them

By Katie Burgess
Updated October 12 2016 - 11:13am, first published September 13 2016 - 12:00am
Anke Maria Hoefer, Frogwatch ACT and Region coordinator - inside her office with a rare green and golden bell frog - wants Canberrans to start listening to frogs in order to complete a census of what frogs live where in the ACT. Photo: Karleen Minney
Anke Maria Hoefer, Frogwatch ACT and Region coordinator - inside her office with a rare green and golden bell frog - wants Canberrans to start listening to frogs in order to complete a census of what frogs live where in the ACT. Photo: Karleen Minney
The green and golden bell frog is virtually extinct in Canberra. Photo: Karleen Minney
The green and golden bell frog is virtually extinct in Canberra. Photo: Karleen Minney

Canberra's Anke Maria Hoefer is known for talking to frogs but she believes it is learning how to listen to them that will save the species.