Cane toads

With the help and support of the Kununurra Community, Kimberley Specialists in Research, fund raised for, organised and hosted the Kununurra Cane Toad Forum in March 2005. The Kununurra Cane Toad Forum brought cane toad scientists from all over Australia together to combine their knowledge about the threat that the cane toad poses to the Kimberley community, and the Australian nation.

On 12 April 2005, following the Kununurra Cane Toad Forum, the federal government listed the cane toad under the Environment and Biodiversity Protection Act 1999 (Cth) as a Key Threatening Process to the Australian Nation (one of only 16 such listings).

The Kununurra Cane Toad forum galvanised the Perth conservation community. In May 2005, the Conservation Council of WA hosted a Perth based Cane Toad Forum, which concentrated on putting pressure on governments and government agencies charged with the responsibility of resisting the cane toad threat to Western Australia.

For more informationof the Kununurra Cane toad Forum click here.

For more information on the forum organised by CCCF and held in Perth click here.