We have "Clean up Australia day" which results in thousands of tonnes of rubished cleared from our land each year. Why cant we have "Rid Australia of cane toads day" and see how many tones we get rid of. Shorely this would slow down their migration into other states or maybe put a bounty (??$ per toad) on their heads to be collected at local councils in big freezers.
Cheers Dusty
Not sure you'd get enough volunteers. Of course everyone wants them gone but mate we're talking about big, ugly, slimy scarey and potentially dangerous frogs. I visited Hartley's Crocodile Farm in Cairns once and they organised a cane toad race. I was nominated to coach one of the toads. I screamed so bad when it so nearly jumped in my lap. Eeewwww!
you know what, having 7 barramundi as pets is hard to keep food up to them. luckily their are no toads down this way but one day in the future it is possibly going to happen.
if i were your parents or so buy a few barramundi fingerlings or 10cm+ barramundi and chuck them in, they eat on 30 guppies each so the chances are you wont have no toadpoles in their.
disagree* you* know* how* petition*please post if u agree or dissagree
also if u no hoe to make e petittion thing plz tell me
. The 'daughterless gene' is the most promising tool I've heard of, but for some reason they aren't keen to give it a go. I haven't heard a peep about it for a few years now.
Manual removal can never work on these things; much of their distrubution is in areas too remote for humans to access, or inhabited by crocodiles, or fenced off and inaccessable for various reasons.
It's been used on at least one pest fish that I know of (can't remember the species atm, too many holes in my brain, draining all the good stuff), but like you say, seems to have disappeared off the map for toads...
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