In 1984, conservationists in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds moved a population of Maud Island frogs that was confined to a small 15- to 16-hectare area of native forest. The hundred frogs were moved in two consignments to the newly restored habitat in a different location on Maud Island, creating a second population to lessen the species' reliance on one forest fragment. A taxonomic note is also worth mentioning, which is that the species was originally described as Leiopelma pakeka, the scientific name in the first publication on the translocation of the species. The Department of Conservation in New Zealand now usually treats it as a population of Hamilton's frog (Leiopelma hamiltoni).
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