Pest control Restricting cane toads' access to dam water is the first strategy shown to give long-term control of the pest in arid Australia, say researchers. They report their findings in a paper ...

A cane toad fence worth more than $10,000 has been destroyed in a suspicious fire at Point Springs nature reserve, 40km north of Kununurra. The 2km fence was installed by Stop the Toad Foundation and ...

The cane toad, Rhinella marina, is one of Australia’s most threatening invasive species, so much so that it was listed on the country’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ...

Australia’s cane toads are an instructive case of the problems of invasive species, as the creatures were originally introduced to control pests and then became a pest themselves. But now new research ...

IN the first study of its kind, researchers from the University of NSW examined the long-term control of cane toads and found that blocking their water source would kill them in large numbers. Lead ...

Cane toads, introduced in 1935 to control cane beetles, have now spread across a huge swathe of Australia, from the Kimberley in northern Western Australia to northern New South Wales. They’re still ...

Preventing cane toads from entering human-made dams to cool down in the hot, arid zones of Australia kills them in large numbers and is an effective way to stop their spread, new research shows. The ...

Australia’s popular Kimberley wilderness region has resorted to a long knee-high fence to keep out the poisonous cane toad, which is rapidly overrunning the tourist attraction. A two-kilometre barrier ...

Conservation groups are fine tuning their cane toad control methods before the toxic amphibian invades Wyndham, Warmun and Purnululu National Park during the upcoming wet season. Having moved into ...

AUSTRALIA is considering building an exclusion fence in an effort to stop the northward advance of one of the country’s most devastating pests, the cane toad. The fence would be built across the neck ...

Special fences built around dams in arid parts of Australia could help eradicate the menace of cane toads, according to new research. The toads, regarded as poisonous pests, are drawn to the dams by ...