Taronga Zoo is re-establishing Australia’s Booroolong frog population with a $178,000 (US$127, 000) breeding facility funded by the Australian government. Booroolong frogs are a critically endangered species, native to the New South Wales (NSW) Northern Tablelands, that were almost wiped out by a severe drought in 2019 which dried up their stream habitats. “The extended drought we had in northern NSW certainly had a big impact on this species,” unit supervisor of the Taronga Zoo Herpetofauna Department, Michael McFadden told AAP. “It’s evident they probably disappeared from some of the local streams they were found in.” To revive the species, Taronga Zoo rescued 58 of the rare frogs from their dried up habitats, with the help of the Australian Museum and the NSW government program, Saving Our Species, and moved them to a breeding facility. “That was almost all we could find of the species at the time,” McFadden told AAP. The …