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November 19, 2010
Cane Toad Discovered in Perth Suburb (Nov 16, 2010)
Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation.
The Department of Environment and Conservation is urging residents in Bayswater and surrounding suburbs to check their gardens for cane toads, after one was found in the Perth suburb. Cane toads have been listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union as among 100 of the world's worst invasive alien species. For more information, see the DEC Cane Toads site.
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October 22, 2010
Cane
Toads are Evolving into Super-Invaders (Oct
19, 2010)
BBC Earth News.
Scientists have demonstrated
a "runaway
evolutionary effect" that is speeding
up Australia's cane
toad invasion; the invasive toads have
increased their rate of spread fivefold in
the last 70 years. The researchers found
that toads living at the very edge of their
range were "super-invaders", because
they have bigger front legs and stronger
back legs which enable them to jump and to
invade new areas. Their offspring inherit
this ability to move quickly into new territory.
The findings are published in the Journal
of Evolutionary Biology article Evolutionarily
Accelerated Invasions: The Rate of Dispersal
Evolves Upwards During the Range Advance
of Cane Toads. Cane toads are one of
the International Union for the Conservation
of Nature's top 100 invasive species.
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March 2, 2010
Cairns
to Catch Toads for Cash (Jan 30, 2010)
Cairns News. Australia.
A cash prize will be offered for a whopper
cane
toad (Bufo
marinus) during a community effort
Mar 27-28, 2010 to control the invasive
species. The weekend collection will help
raise awareness of the effects cane toads
have upon native wildlife. Toads must
be delivered live to the weigh in. Last year's
bounty hunt resulted in the collection of
more than 6000 pests from the region!
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January 19, 2010
Australia a Global Leader in Biodiversity Knowledge (Sep 29, 2009)
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has released the only report in the world to document the planet's known animal and plant species - all 1,899,587 of them.
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November 24, 2009
Pathogens
in Vertebrate Pests in Australia (2009;
PDF | 920 KB)
Invasive Animal Cooperative Research Centre.
This
new report provides an overview of diseases
or pathogens that have been identified in
vertebrate pests in Australia; particularly
feral pigs, foxes and wild dogs, feral cats,
feral goats, rabbits, cane toads, rodents
(feral mice and ship rats) and European carp.
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August 18, 2009
Australia's
Biodiversity - Impacts of Climate Change (Aug
17, 2009)
Australian
Government. Department of Climate Change.
New
report released -- Australia's
Biodiversity and Climate Change: A strategic
assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's’s
biodiversity to climate change (PDF | 3
MB). The report provids more compelling
evidence of the need to protect Australia's
natural environment for future generations -- not
only from climate change, but from such other
stressors as vegetation clearing and the
impact of invasive species (see Climate
change and invasive species (PDF | 296 KB).
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June 29, 2009
Blacklist
bans ornamental fish species in Queensland (Jun
24, 2009)
Minister for Primary Industries, Fisheries
and Rural and Regional Queensland. The Honourable
Tim Mulherin.
More than 70 species of ornamental fish will
be banned in Queensland under changes to
noxious fish legislation. Minister for Primary
Industries, Fisheries and Rural and Regional
Queensland Tim Mulherin announced that fish
species from 30 family groups would be added
to the banned list. This ban takes effect
on Aug 1, 2009. People owning these soon-to-be
banned fish can keep them, only if they apply
for a permit before August.
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April 24, 2009
Climate
change may wake up 'sleeper' weeds
(Mar 26, 2009)
Commonwealth to the Scientific and Industrial
Reaserch Organization. Australia.
Climate
change will cause some of Australia’s
potential weeds to move south by up to 1000km,
according to a report by scientists at CSIRO's
Climate Adaptation Flagship. Weeds cost Australia
more than A$4 billion a year either in control
or lost production and cause serious damage
to the environment.
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July 8, 2008
Weedbuster
Week --Sep 1-7,
2008
Weeds Australia.
Weedbusters is an awareness program that works
with the community to achieve sustainable
land and water management, primarily through
increased public involvement in weed management,
education and awareness projects.
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Toads
Poisoning "Medical" Snakes (Jun
27, 2008)
National Geographic.
Milked for antivenom, Australia's king brown
snakes are eating poisonous cane toads — alien
amphibians that are overrunning the country.
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May 8, 2007
Australia -- Weedbuster Week -- Oct 6-13, 2007
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