Poisonous cane toads are back in many neighborhoods as we get into the rainy season. Dog owners need to be alert because the invasive toads can kill their pets. There is a cane toad trap that you can ...

AN INNOVATIVE new trap using light and sound to trap toxic amphibians was developed using cane toad research findings from James Cook University studies. The Toadinator trap mimics cane toad calls to ...

Inmates at Canberra's new jail have been enlisted in the fight against the Indian myna bird. Prisoners at the Alexander Maconochie Centre will make traps to catch the pests, referred to as the 'flying ...

Professor Lin Schwarzkopf from the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity and Climate Change said it was expected the trap would be sold in hardware stores from May. JCU has been working with Animal Control ...

Australia has a new weapon in the fight against the dreaded cane toad, one of the country's most harmful introduced pests. A competition to find the most effective way of trapping the toads has been ...

Katherine resident Paul Baker will have his cane toad trap commercially produced after taking out a national competition. The Northern Territory Government launched the Great Cane Toad Trap ...

SYDNEY, June 13 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say the poison invasive cane toads use to devastate native species could be turned into a weapon against the toads themselves. Researchers at the ...

Lin Schwarzkopf works in partnership with Animal Control Technologies Australia, a for-profit company that partners with James Cook University via a Linkage grant. This cane toad research was also ...

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