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This site and the Kimberley Toad Busters cane toad volunteer group was established by Kimberley Specialists www.kimberleyspecialists.com.au

The work of the Community group Kimberley Toad Busters has clearly shown that by community involvement in controlling cane toad population numbers in a given area you minimise the chance of native predators attacking and consuming a toad, which in turn reduces the number of native animals dying as a the direct impact of the cane toad. Keeping toad numbers (adult and all breeding cycles) under control also helps the smaller insect eating native predators such as frogs, smaller skinks and lizards by reducing food competition. With cane toads capable of eating around 200 insects a night, uncontrolled numbers of cane toads increases food competition very quickly so the loss of smaller native species (full extent yet unknown) is probably quite significant (KTB research is supporting this conclusion). Kimberley Toad Busters field based research activities are primarily focussed on understanding the impacts of cane toads on wildlife and on developing ways to manage these impacts.

Click here for the Kimberley Toadbuster What's In Your Backyard Program

KTB Biodiversity identification cards in a flip book
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Click to show a larger version of the frontline movement of cane toads from the NT to WA since 2005 Teachers Resource File Flip Book
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The West Austalian Governments reclassification of the cane toad as a pest

ABC Interview

The 2009 Parks and wildlife audit "concluded that in many areas threatened species were not being effectively protected and recovered and that the number of threatened species was rising with only a few species improving"
Eight years later, the auditor's new report is rife with criticisms about the department, inferring poor management practices and a failure to adopt necessary changes.

The Canberra Times.

Video by Robyn Chaplle MLC

Beautiful WA cane toads


Interview with Boonya
Interview with Kevin
Interview with JuJu
documentary of the Kimberley Toad Busters
KTB activites and news
KTB research site
  Dana Lyons "Cane toad muster"

 

Help us Make a difference

Please help us in our fight to lessen the impact of the cane toad in Australia

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To listen to the call of the Cane Toad Click here

KTB Threatened species list

 

Kimberley Toadbusters Busters: 10 years of community effort against an alien invasion is now available in hard copy for a donation.
click here to down load Flip book version (102 Mb)
 



To View descriptions and pictures of almost 500 Kimberley birds and animals click on the frog

Volunteer beetle expert Andre Masseur's Nicholson Station research

KTB Nicholson Station Marella Gorge biodiversity study looking at short term impacts of the cane toad on native biodiversity have now been completed. Jordy Groffen , KTB animal scientist in charge of the project is currently analising the data. Report available on request.

 

KTB Education Program

Cane toad facts you may not know!


 

To view a brief history of the Kimberley Toadbuster's fight against the cane toad and involvement with the community click here

Yellow Spotted Monitor
90% Loss of Numbers
No Recovery since 2003 Kakadu
Blue Tongue Skink
100% Loss of Numbers Fogg Dam
Rainbow Bee Eater
30% Loss of Numbers in S.E. QLD
Brown Snake
NT Reports up to 90% loss of Numbers
Frill Necked Lizard
Up tp 100% Loss in Cane Toad Infected Areas of the Top End
 

"It is important to recognise that the pristine terrestrial and aquatic habitat systems of the Kimberley are already under threat. Current land care and resource management policies undertaken by land and resource managers have had a detrimental impact on Kimberley biodiversity. Most of our plant and animal biodiversity is in a fragile state. The impact of the cane toad, if allowed to happen, will literally destroy one of the last unique biodiversity wilderness frontiers in Australia," Lee Scott-Virtue. Kimberley Specialists in Research april 2005.