Attack of the Cane Toads

A silent war is raging between the residents of the Northern Territory and a menacing invader.
Cane toads have been steadily crossing through the NT for the last 20 years but it was only recently that the frontline reached Darwin.
Residents have taken up the responsibility of managing the environment and protecting the native fauna from extinction.
These "Toadbusters" -- as they call themselves -- are relying on people-power to exterminate or at least control toad numbers before they reach plague proportions...
But can the toads really be stopped or is their spread across Australia inevitable?
CQU's Darwin correspondent, Cameron Jackson, reports...

---------DISCLAIMER----------
Assignment 3 for JOUR12008 (Television Journalism) at Central Queensland University.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Cane
• Toad
• NT
• Northern
• Territory
• Darwin
• CQU
• Central
• Queensland
• University

[sksarthak]

introduce a natural predator

duh

and by the way its your faul and ur follishness to introduce a new species without thinking

cane toads are doing wht they r suppose to

[HeiCam]

You're right. It was a stupid idea to introduce a new species without considering the future implications. We can't introduce another species to control it because we don't know what would happen...the new species may be worse for our Australian ecosystem. Aussie scientists are working on different measures of controlling the cane toad, though, so we're hoping they'll be successful soon.

[339Pat]

What sort of moronic commentator would compare the gassing of these pests to the gas chambers of Nazi Germany? You gotta be kidding.

[malbrou]

i bring good news, they say the slate grey snake and the keelback snake are immune to cane toad poison and keeps preying on them

[TeaGreenz]

How are they allowed to handle them if they secret poison?

[kickpix1965]

that was a weird part of the script comparing it to Nazi gas chambers - unnecessary and offensive

[moatguy]

Yeah and it's not our brown tree snakes fault they're a pest on Guam! But they still kill them there!

[marysunshine1990]

poor toads I feel bad for them it's not their fault their a plauge

[TheSupermanprem]

@3:21 how nice if that guy is smashes by a bulldozer and he will feel the pain of how he step the toad

[bealtespip123]

Don't worry,if the toads get out of hand we can unleash a wave of Chinese Needle Snakes. They'll wipe out the toads. = )

[volure1]

Burn the for electric power planting good idea.

[amazingorigamiii]

Wow. They brought it there the toads didn't magically show up

[jezx21]

@sksarthak it doesnt have a natural predator. its poisonus

[andywattbulb]

humans are the Nazi's of the animal kingdom.