Cane Toads

Website constructed by Dean Goodgame of Kimberley Specialists
deangood@wn.com.au

The Cane Toad is a Key Threatening Process to the Australian Nation
Declared by the Federal Government 12 April 2005

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

Click on the following to visit our facebook pages to see our up to date activities and leave a comment
SITE 1 : KTB activites and news
SITE 2 : An older KTB site with a bit of history

United Nations Association of Australia
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY AWARDS 2011.
KTB finalists in 3 sections.
The Department of Sustainability and Environment Biodiversity Award.
The Community Award and the Sustainability Education Award.
Winner for the second year in the Community Award.
Finalist in the 2011 East Kimberley Aboriginal Achievements Awards in the category of Outstanding Organisation/Program contributing to Community Life.
Finalist in the 2011 Banksia Awards in the category Indigenous-Caring for Country
Finalist in the 2011 Western Australian Enviornment awards in the Enviromental and Communication category

Our Patron Mary G.

ORIC photo

Join Kimberley Toad Busters in their fight as they battle to keep cane toad numbers under control and stop any new breeding. Experience a holiday with a difference! Contact us on admin@canetoads.com.au or ring 08 91682576

Protect our Kimberley wildlife from the cane toad! Join the KTB "What's in your Backyard?" program.

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1: Up-dates on cane toad activity & breeding in Kununurra,

2: Frontline movement of cane toads across the Kimberley

3: KTB reconnaisance activity.

4: KTB Activities 2005 onwards

KTB Volunteers
Undertaking biodiversity recording and monitoring

W.A.

Click on state name for image of latest map showing location of the cane toad.

Cane toads are continuing their 'terrible' destruction across the Kimberley. KTB continue to 'map' the colonising fronts and to record as much data as they can to understand the behaviour of the cane toad. This information is critical is we are ever to get scientists and government to understand the urgency of supporting science to ultimately find a biological or other solution.

N.T.

KTB have pulled over 2,000,000 cane toads out of the environment.
KTB have over seven thousand volunteers.
KTB "what's in your Backyard?" programme now operating in remote schools as far away as Fitzroy and Derby.

"The Territory has benefitted from the work of the Kimberley Toad Busters, who have regularly travelled 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.

KTB have contributed over 5 million hours of volunteer time into eradicating cane toads.


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

"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

“Explorer Toads. It has long been recognised by KTB that ‘travellers’ or ‘explorer’ toads move ahead of the colonising front. Future research needs to focus on ‘the why?
Ben Scott-Virtue. KTB Field Coordinator.

KTB have also removed countless millions of eggs, tadpoles and metamorphs from the environment.

"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.