Dr Jodi Rowley, an amphibian researcher at the Australian museum hopes to mobilize citizen scientists to help track the health of local frogs using a smartphone app.
The push for a wider tracking of the frogs comes as a new study reveals 42 per cent of all frogs and other amphibians are threatened with extinction.
The app called FrogID, will record the sound of the frog and send it back to Dr Rowley and her colleagues where they can then identify and properly map out the location of the endangered species.