Cane toads put in military detention

Cane toads put in military detention : "CANE toad containers known as Detention Centres will be kept on Top End military bases to house the warty pests before they are gassed and turned to fertilizer."

Frogwatch has really upped the ante on the cane toads for the past couple of years and they have increased the community interest and participation through their persistence, their good humour and their magnificent capacity to rally the troops and keep them all informed. It has become a phenomenon and living proof you can engage a community happily and well if you are organised and have a plan. They document the cane toad drift from Queensland to the Top End and they stay ahead of the toads. They are very inventive in their approach but their strength comes from utilising the enthusiasm and then the expertise of the community. It is about saving our own species...The detention centres cost $700 and house 500 toads each. Go to FrogWatch and help if you can because cane toads, as legendary as they might be, are a mammoth threat to our environment. The good news is CSIRO has been working on a way to stop this migration...working against nature is hard...but then the frogwatchers can go back to watching frogs and not toads!