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The Kimberley Toad Busters Inc. are the only volunteer group on the ground, twelve months of the year, fighting to stop the toad from crossing into WA.
For the first time in 74 years, a totally volunteer force, have the ability to 'slow' and assist government and scientists to find a 'biological' solution to the relentless march of the cane toad across the North of Australia..
Kimberley Toad Busters are as much about gathering scientific data as it is about cane toad education and 'busting' toads. |
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KTB news up-date!
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KTBs make the finals in the prestigious National Banksia Awards! |
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" What's In Your Back yard?" See how you can help in recording and monitoring our native biodiversity. Whether you are fishing, taking a hike along your favourite track or just sitting enjoying the sunset from your "backyard" you can join the growing group of Kimberley people helping KTBs, scientists and researchers record our native biodiversity as well as assist in monitoring the impact of cane toads as they arrive. Download the forms you need at our data form input page.
- KTB cane toad website sets new record in June 2009:
· average 2,022 hits a day over life of site.
· 4,532 hits a day over week leading up to 11 June.
· 5,632 page downloads in week leading up to 11 June 2009.
- KTB adult toad count as of 11-06-09 = 372,678
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KTB volunteer hours at invading front lines reaches as of 11-06-09 592,012 field toadbusting volunteer hours
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KTBs clearly demonstrate that weekly toadbusting in the Northern Territory over the last 4 years has impacted on cane toad numbers and that the front line movement is starting to slow down. Click here to see map.
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DEC is now proposing to ban KTB tried and true toadbusting methods in Western Australia
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KTB researcher Jordy Groffen produces further work that rebuts previously held hypothesis that lungworm parasite way behind front line toads
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KTB researcher discovers parasite not previously described in Australia
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WA Draft CANE TOAD STRATEGY out for public comment, due by 25 June 2009
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Federal Government finally proposing National Cane Toad Threat Abatement Plan
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Click on image for latest map showing positions of the cane toad |
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- 31 December 2008 Kimberley Toad Busters release their updated Guidance plan for the Management of Cane Toads in the Kimberley
click here for PDF Version
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"The Territory has benefitted from the work of the Kimberley Toad Busters,
who regularly travel up to 400km into the Northern Territory to
capture...cane toads..."
Northern Territory Minister for Natural Resources,
Environment and Heritage,
Alison Anderson, 16 January 2009.
click here for entire article
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"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. |
"The Kimberley Toad Busters are leaders in the unprecedented community response to the threat posed by cane toads to Western Australia and I commend the passion and commitment of your members,"
Director General DEC. Keiran McNamara, 19 January 2009
"I'd like to congratulate your group on its efforts to halt the spread of cane toads to Western Australia...Your work eradicating 350,000 cane toads from the Territory's Victoria River region is greatly appreciated,"
Northern Territory Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage, Alison Anderson, 16 January 2009.
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