Environmentalists have raised the alarm over logging near the habitat of a rare frog in East Gippsland that was long thought extinct until it was rediscovered five years ago. The large brown tree frog, which has distinctive orange markings on its hind legs, hadn’t been seen for two decades when ecologist and citizen scientist Rena Gaborov heard it call one evening in 2015 and later photographed an adult frog. The frog was hailed as a “Lazarus species” – those rare creatures which prove the experts wrong by reappearing long after they were thought to have become extinct. Now Ms Gaborov and the Goongerah Environment Centre Office in East Gippsland say the state environment department has placed an inadequate buffer around the critically endangered frog’s habitat at Mt Jersey, which is near to forest coupes where logging is underway.