Lance Lloyd
Lloyd Environmental Pty Ltd
"From Restoration to Rewilding:
Returning Growling Grass Frogs to Winton Wetlands"
Wednesday 3rd June
From 6:30 pm - Talk starts 7:30 pm
The Elgin Inn, Hawthorn
Growling Grass Frog (GGF) rewilding is an important tool in wetland restoration, helping restore both biodiversity and ecological function in landscapes where the species has disappeared. At Winton Wetlands, rewilding has followed a “Revive-Recreate-Rewild” framework: first restoring hydrology and habitat processes, then enhancing habitat complexity and water quality, before reintroducing GGFs as a key predator and flagship species. The project has involved feasibility studies, habitat suitability assessments, chytrid risk management, captive breeding and quarantine facilities, release-site enhancement, invasive fish control, and adaptive monitoring. Our habitat works focus on creating warm, vegetated, slightly saline refuge habitats that may improve resilience to chytrid and support long-term population persistence. Beyond species recovery, GGF rewilding will help rebuild food webs, strengthen ecosystem resilience, and provide a highly visible measure of restoration success. The work also demonstrates how threatened frog conservation can engage communities, researchers, citizen scientists and land managers in broader ecological restoration efforts.
Lance Lloyd is an aquatic ecologist and restoration scientist with 40 years’ experience in wetland, river and estuarine management across south-eastern Australia. He has led major wetland restoration projects, including playing a key role in the Growling Grass Frog rewilding program at Winton Wetlands.
All are welcome in the audience -
no RSVP/registration necessary
Join us upstairs at The Elgin from 6:30 pm for dinner and drinks (available for purchase), talk starts at 7:30 pm at
The Elgin Inn 75 Burwood Road, Hawthorn VIC 3122
