Threats from altered ecology have made this a critically endangered species of south-western Australia.

The species resides and breeds in small depressions under dense vegetation giving a discrete series of 11–18 barely resolvable pulses.

Unusually for frog species G. alba has little migratory behaviour and reinvasion of disturbed habitat is not recorded.

Threats such as fire and cattle can degrade vegetation surrounding the frog's habitat; damming and land clearing for viticulture or planting of introduced tree species alters the hydrology.

Funding has been allocated to provide fencing to land owners and a reserve connecting the Forest Grove and Blackwood River National Parks to assist the protection of the riparian habitat.