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Push for native pets to save species from cane toads
Wednesday, 15 June 2005. 10:29 (AEST)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/qld/mtisa/200506/s1392401.htm

A former chief ranger at Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory wants people to keep native animals as pets to prevent them being wiped out by cane toads.

Greg Miles says if something is not done, many unique species will be completely lost.

He says it is too hard to get a pet permit to keep natives like water quolls and goannas.

"You'll end up having in people's backyards or in rural blocks little gene pools, little islands of this living tissue in the form of quolls or whatever it might be," Mr Miles said.

"Then these can then ultimately be re-released into the wild one day if we get on top of cane toads."

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