Cane Toads

 

This site and the Kimberley Toad Busters cane toad volunteer group was established by Kimberley Specialists. www.kimberleyspecialists.com.au
A heartfelt cry from the Kununurra Community to the Nation now fighting to stop the cane toad from crossing into WA since Sept. 2004.

 

Website constructed by Dean Goodgame of Kimberley Specialists. www.kimberleyspecialists.com.au

The Kimberley Toad Busters Inc. are the only truly totally volunteer group on the ground fighting to stop the toad from crossing into WA
For the first time in 72 years, a totally volunteer force, with the help of the Department of Environment and Conservation field team have the ability to 'slow' the
cane toad front line while government and scientists find a 'biological' solution to the relentless march of the cane toad.
Kimberley Toad Busters is as much about gathering scientific data as it is about 'busting' toads.
'Front' line field biological data collected by the Kimberley Toad Busters and collated by Kimberley Specialists in Research is helping to assist in the Federal Governments efforts to find a 'biological' solution to the problem.

The aim of this website is to document the Kimberley Toad Busters efforts to stop the cane toad crossing into Western Australia and to provide the Western Australian Community some understanding of the enormous efforts (and contributions) that can be made by unpaid volunteers! This 'on the ground' fight by volunteers in the field began on September 10th, 2005!

Click here to listen to the Cane Toad Call

Kimberley Toadbuster Media Releases.
The Cane Toad Front Line up-date.
Canetoad research projects
Recognising KTBs silent achievers.
Kimberley Wildlife Rescue
A Cane Toad Holiday with a Difference
Cane Toads at Bullo River Station and the plight of the Pygmy Crocodiles.
A photograph gallery of the impact of cane toads.
The Mataranka Toad Limiters.
KTB Sponsor thank you.
Bunbury Vietnam Vets 2007 4 week Toadbust.
KTB Fact Sheets.

Cane Toad Sites

metamorh spraying

Uncle Bob

Up-dates in a Nutshell!  

  • Kimberley Toadbusters release their working draft Guidance plan for the Management of Cane Toads in the Kimberley
    click here for PDF Version
  • KTBs to celebrate 3 years in the field on the 4th of October in a big community celebration in Whitegum Park in Kununurra.
  • On the 18th August cane toads 'celebrated' 73 years in Australia! And are 'poised' to cross the border into Western Australia. Still not enough being done by Australian governments!
  • Vietnam vets spent 4 weeks in the field busting toads at the front line and mopping up breeding areas's. Over 12,000 toads removed from the system.
  • Kimberley Toad Busters continue to hit all six Front Line Cane Toad Corridors making their way towads the WA border.
  • Macquarie Hepatology student, Lyall Grieves (working in partnership with the KTBs) discovers that small reptile species are also feeling the impact of the cane toad (see Newsletter 23)..
  • KTBs have begun to implement the field component of their management strategy by identifying and mapping potential cane toad habitat systems in advance of the cane toad colonising fronts.
  • KTB Newsletter no 24 loaded.
  • TBs Dutch Research Student finds Lungworm Rhahbias cf hylae in Cane Toads at the Western Colonising Front!!
  • Download Jordy's Power Point Presentation as presented at the Darwin conference (5MB)

  • “This is an incredible breakthrough. If we could confirm that the native frog species responsible for passing on this lungworm were also present at the very frontline areas, there is the possibility we could drop infected toads into these areas without any adverse impacts on native species. This would significantly hasten the impact of the lungworm on the cane toad and could result in a massive reduction in numbers and resilience of toads in any given area ”, Jordy Groffen.

    Photo by Jordy Groffen:

    Jordy.s Power Point Presentation

    Lungworm Rhahbias cf hylae buried in colonising cane toad lung tissue

Click here for "THE HEROES' FAREWELL!" By Jo Robertson, Bunbury WA.

'Ode' to our Vietnam Vet Kimberley Toad Busters.

    See our latest newsletter click here


    Male cane toads exhibiting a range of colours.


    The Toad from hell!
    Truly an Alien!


    Cane toad Laying eggs
    Too late!

    ALL DONATIONS TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

If you would like to contribute financially to our totally volunteer fight against the advance of the cane toad into Western Australia,

Please send a cheque or money order payable to Kimberley Toadbusters Inc. to

Kimberley Toadbusters Inc.
P.O. Box 1188
Kununurra
Western Australia 6743.

Or pay directly into the Kimberley Toad Busters Inc tax deductible account Kimberley Toad Busters. 086 787 86349 2274 National Bank. Kununurra. (please email or post details of this donation so we can send you a receipt or at best a letter of thanks).

A receipt and certificate of thanks will then be forwarded to you.

Or for information on how you can help,
email: kimberleytoadbusters@canetoads.com.au
or Phone
Lee Scott-Virtue or Dean Goodgame on 08 91682576 or
Sarah Brett 0407 691229

Or contact the Perth based
'Friends of the Kimberley Toad Busters' on Friendsktb@westnet.com.au
to see how you can best help the 'real' battle on the ground to 'stop the cane toad from crossing into Western Australia'.


Collecting data

Cane toad Juvenile.

collecting tadpoles.

KTB's Federal funded Trayback.

Kimberlay Toadbusters about the science of canetoads


www.ninasjewellery.com.au


The Pearl pendant donated by Nina's to raise funds for the Kimberley Toad Busters work in the field was drawn on the 17th November 2007.

The pearl was won by a 'wish to remain unnamed' lady from Wyndham. The total amount raised was just under $4,000.

The Kimberley Toadbusters would also like to thank Ord River Lions Club for their continuing support and resources.

The Kimberley Toadbusters gratefully acknowledge the support of NE sheds in helping with storage facilities for our equipment

See fairdinkumsheds.com

Kimberley Toad Busters would like to be able to put all their sponsors on the KTB website front page but the enormous response received from local community individuals and businesses has made this impossible. We have now opened a page that hopefully thanks EVERYONE for their support. For those that have contirubuted in some way (no matter how small it has made KTBs what they are today) and you have not been achonwledged please email Dean on deangood@wn.com.au




The Kimberley Toad Busters would like to thank Alligator Airways for their continuing support.

For more information check out the following link

http://www.alligatorairways.com.au

Georgina Wilson, Toad Buster Leader collecting cane toad eggs.


News
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING COMMITTMENT OF $303,000 directly to the Kimberley Toad Busters.
Kimberley Toad Busters is now an Incorporated body!

Cane Toad Sightings:

If you think you have seen a cane toad
Contact
.Del Collins:
Dean Goodgame:
Sarah Brett
: Chris Spur:
Georgina Wilson:
Annie or Anne Marie Wilson:
Bruce Russell:
Lee Scott-Virtue:We will pass on any information to DEC.

A determined look to 'solve' the cane toad problem by one of our Junior Kimberley toad busters'.


Cultural Boundaries overcome in the struggle by the East Kimberley Community to prevent the cane toad from crossing the Western Australian border.

Children learning that cane toads did not come into Australia voluntarily and that in their own natural environment they should be respected.

Families united in the efforts to stop the cane toad!

'Hell or high water' I will get to the Kimberley!

A successful night of 'toad busting' by Kimberley Toad Busters!.

Junior Toad Busters learning about Cane toads!

Another successful catch

A Toad Busting 'Educational' training session being run by vet and KTB 'Educational Trainer' Sarah Brett.

"The cane toad Buffo marinus is recognised by the IUCN and the Global Invasive Species Programme as one of the world's 100 worst invaders (Lowe et al. 2000).

"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 bio diversity. Most of our plant and animal bio diversity is in a fragile state. The impact of the cane toad, if allowed to happen, will literally destroy one of the last unique bio diversity wilderness frontiers in Australia" (quote Lee Scott-Virtue. Kimberley Specialists.)