Toad Media
ABC NT Rural News summary
New strategy to stop cane toads reaching west
Wednesday, 9 March 2005
Reporter: Adrienne Francis
A community organisation has unveiled a detailed battle plan to
limit the western cane toad front to the Victoria River District,
and prevent them entering WA.
Save Endangered East Kimberley Species or SEEKS as it's known,
has developed a strategy targeting the amphibious pest in the build
up months, when toads are most sensitive to harsh climatic extremes.
Chairperson ALAN THOMPSON says it involves trapping on waterholes
and billabongs in remote pastoral country from Auvergne Station
in the north, south towards Wave Hill and Birrindudu Stations "We're
not prepared to live with them we don't want to see Western Australia
overrun with Cane Toads.
Nobody's ever tried to stop Cane Toads at a landscape level. Over
this past dry season Frogwatch NT have developed and put in place
a very innovative trap design, one that we feel we can use to stop
Cane Toads entering the state".
Alan Thompson, Chairperson of Save endangered East Kimberley Species
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