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Toad MediaMEDIA RELEASE22 April 2007Fences proposed for toads' roadsOriginal article http://www.abc.net.au:80/news/newsitems/200704/s1903471.htm ABC News Online Frog Watch in the Northern Territory is making plans to set up mesh barriers in key cane toad movement corridors around Darwin. The group is calling for sanctuary zones to be set up to protect some of the species being wiped out by the toads. The group says goanna, quoll and snake populations are being severely affected by the pest. Frog Watch organiser, Graeme Sawyer, says he hopes toad fencing can be set up in the next year to add to the effectiveness of existing traps and control strategies. He says a trial of a four-kilometre long mesh fence in the Gregory National Park has been a success. "Cane toad behaviour when they hit the barrier tends to be to track along it," he said. "They don't just sort of hit it, turn around and go back the other way, they tend to track along the fence for a fair distance and so it actually seems to be improving the capture rate of cane toad traps quite a bit too," he said. "We're going to try and raise money to put some significant ones up around the Darwin area. "We've identified some key corridors where cane toads are moving into the Darwin area and we think we can shut those down more effectively if we use some barrier fencing in conjunction with our trap lines."
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