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Toad MediaMEDIA RELEASE……...MEDIA RELEASE18 August 200570 years across the top - unchallenged! It’s a pretty miserable anniversary to be marking, but today the noxious cane toad celebrates 70 years of feral havoc in tropical Australia. That’s three score and ten years of uncontrolled and unchallenged proliferation across our north, destroying unique Australian ecosystems everywhere it spawns and hops. That’s a whole lifetime of destruction, of native extinctions and a financial burden to future generations. The toad forces native species from habitats or kills them outright. It eats whatever will fit into its mouth and poisons anything unfortunate enough to attack it. Released near Gordonvale in Queensland on 18 August 1935, the cane toad has been an enormous and costly biological blunder for our country. This summer the infestation could cross the WA border. If so, the invasion will be complete; the toad will occupy the whole of the tropic north and begin to move south. Today, 70 years on, community groups with the support of the WA and NT governments, are preparing to mount the first real challenge to the spread of the cane toad. They aim to trap toads across a large area along the Victoria River in the Northern Territory in an urgent and all-out attempt to keep them out of WA. If cane toads are allowed to reach the waters of the Ord River they will be in the bloodstream of the precious Kimberley. Their numbers will explode and from there they’ll be all but impossible to stop. The Stop The Toad campaign today sent an e- card to all state (WA) and Federal politicians calling upon them to support the community in this critical undertaking and to bolster all efforts to defend our precious Kimberley region and its vulnerable communities. Now, before it’s too late. They called for heightened levels of cooperation across political parties, governments, borders and agencies. ‘Let’s turn this story around,’ campaigner Dennis Beros said today. ‘Let’s make this anniversary the year we finally did something, the year we fought back.’ The e-card features ‘Baz’ from an award winning animation. The e-card can be viewed at http://www.conservationwa.asn.au/toad/ecard/ Also happening on August 18th Perth: A community awareness display stall in the Murray Street mall in the city from 11 am to 3 pm and an e-card sent to ALL politicians to alert them to this fateful day 70 years ago! Kununurra: An educational and information display in the Kununurra Coles and the Community Cane Toad Volunteer Project will be launched - 1.30 til 4 pm. Darwin: Households are being asked to check their yards and nearby parks and public lands for cane toads tonight. Frogwatch Nth want information about any toads sighted or captured and also any public areas checked which were clear of toads. This information will help with scheduled community ‘Toad Musters’ later in the dry season. Media contacts:
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