Cane Toads

Because they dont care about the environment !

If they spent the same money on eradicating the cane toad as they have spent fighting a unwinnable war in Iraq THE TOAD WOULD BE HISTORY.

I live in Darwin and they are already here, some have been found as big as dinner plates packed full of eggs. All the goannas and other predators are being killed off.

One station south of here put a 60 cm fence of shade cloth around its boundry and it proved highly succesful. Why did they not try that ten years ago before they got out of QLD. It didnt stop em all but slowed them. Now they are in the wetlands. I predict they will be in West Aus by the end of the next wet. Hopefully the dry burn offs may curb there numbers ?

Oh thats right they only have a 10 billion dollar surplus and dont care about the great country we live in, just in making us all scared of " terror" and being little George Bush clones.

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country :)

We could probably make a nice living out of a toad bounty at Jabiru.

I moved our dog kennel the other day and killed 7 of the buggers, although a group up here kill about 70 odd every thursday night.

I like the idea of a cane toad fence.

Regards Bob

When we moved to Qld 20 years ago they were everywhere. They used to get on our verandah and look into the lounge room through the windows. The pool was full of their eggs, and my dogs used to get sick from trying to nip em.
These days they've all but gone, still see the occasional one.
Playing golf at night and driving erratically got a few of them, but apparently they must follow the money trail :))))

warfer69
I know your concerns, but realisticly , c'mon you can't blame any Government, take a map of North Australia and imagine just how many millions there will be in the huge Outback and unaccessible terrains across the top end, and you reackon a government should find every single Toad in the area, Just accept the fact that they are here and here to stay unless some form of contol can be found , and of course unknown to you there is reseach going on to try and find some means of erradication, There is a small group of people catching a few up North between WA and NT , what a waste of time , they will not even scratch the surface , The Toads are not travelling down the Hwy's on little bikes

you blokes in Melbourne east, and anywhere else for that matter...

keep an eye out for these too

In another life I was on the exec of The Environment Council in the NT representing the 4x4 mob. In the 1970's we lobbied the Goverment to come up with a cane toad plan. In the 1980's we lobbied the Government. In the 1990's I moved away from the north but the lobbying continued. Nothing but bloody NOTHING happened and the Cane Toads invaded the NT.

I understand that the WA Government is building some sort of fence near the NT Border now to try and stop the Cane Toads.

A simple electric fence would have killed off most of the buggers trying to cross the country and at the least would have minimised the impact.

The Government is there to run the country on behalf of the people. Sometimes we wonder if that is so.

Cheers

ive got a few suprises for the pests if they roll into my neck of the woods....I should nt say it...but i will be looking forward to the sport.....hahaha

Hi Dougie

The REASON i BLAME the Government is from my understanding is that they ok'd the importation of this pest... Let me know if i'm wrong.I am not the type to expect the Government to fix all society's ill's,I am entitled to a disabilty pension (back) but try my hardest not to ever apply for it,just expect them to face up to there stuff up's and they have the monetry means to fix it...
First stop would be to stop sending billions of dollars over 4 years to Indonesia...
Fix our own probs first then send whats left (within reason)

cheers mate

Because as with all pollies they can't see past the next election. Frankly they can keep my $16 a week and spend it on issues such as this.

Try this.

www.frogwatch.org.au/

Cheers Steve.

Cane toads have been a problem for so long, I am extremely surprised someone hasn't come up with a disease to kill them off (similar to mixamatosis for rabbits). You would think the Qld government would have found something by now, but then again if the whole of Aus worked together and it wasn't so much of a "not a problem in my back yard yet" issue then something may have been discovered already.

In the meantime even a small bounty is better than nothing, the NT seems to have had to work on it's tourism marketing in recent years so I imagine they really need to work on the Cane Toad issue to keep the wetlands and the tourists.

Buddy,
Did you know that cane toads were loose in Darwin in 1976?

Bit of a tease I guess Steve, but factual.
4 toads were taken there in "good faith". Held under an inverted bucket overnight. Next morning revealed an overturned bucket, with the subsequent search yielding all four toads; close call eh? The invasion could easily have happened 30 years earlier.
Mate, I agree that they're scum and disasterous, but until biological control fronts up, I reckon we (and more importantly our wildlife) are stuffed. People can practice their golf swings endlessly: it won't make a skerrick of difference to the invasion. (btw, there may be a lucrative trade in both cadavers and skins to universities and Chinese medical wholesalers: perhaps the pioneer invaders could be worth even more than our standard Qld fare?).
Not pretty. Jeff H.