Cane toads

Kimberley Specialists in Research, Dr Sarah Brett and the Kununurra community, supported by local donations have combined to form a formidable community band of volunteer cane toad catchers and trappers. See below for our volunteer program news.

"...trappers and fencers have probably got a better chance of slowing them down at the moment, than we have..." Dr Tony Robinson, CSIRO senior scientist working on the cane toad project talking to Lawson on ABC regional NW Morning Program,16 August ,2005.

"Community groups are way ahead of government agencies," announced world renowned author Tim Winton at the Kununurra Cane Toad Forum, organised and hosted in March 2005 by Kimberley Specialists in Research.

"Community action is an inspiration", Malcolm Douglas filmmaker and owner of the Broome Crocodile Farm at the Kununurra Cane Toad Forum.

"Government agencies will be able to resist the movement of the cane toad front into the Kimberley only with the help of community volunteers," Graeme Storey of Northern Frogwatch