For more information contact STTF’s Campaign Manager Kim
Hands on [email protected]
or 0400130397.
Fact file
Toads were introduced into Australia in 1935 in an effort to
control beetles eating the sugar cane.
Toads produce toxins that are deadly to a range of endangered
Australian wildlife including northern quolls, goannas, snakes
and freshwater crocodiles. They also compete with native wildlife
for habitat and food.
The western frontline of toads is moving at least 40 km a year
and toads are now well and truly into The Kimberley.
Each female toad can lay 35000 eggs. The first rains indicate
to the toads it is time to breed.
STTF is a non-profit, non-government organization established
in 2005. There is one staff member, who divides her time between
Perth and Kununurra.
STTF has held The Great Toad Muster for the past 5 years. A
total of 200,000 toads have been removed with the help of hundreds
of volunteers around Australia.
STTF uses temporary and permanent fencing to control toads.
The Emma gorge fence is the first toad proof fence to be erected
in the East Kimberley. It is 1.34km long and took 12 days to build.
The total cost was just over $7K.
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