Australian scientists introduced toxic cane toads to control sugar cane pests in 1935. These toads failed to eat the target beetles and spread rapidly across the continent. The invasive toads poisoned ...

Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control sugarcane beetles, but the toads ignore the beetles while decimating the ecosystem they were meant to protect. Instead, they became a highly ...

In hopes that they could control destructive cane beetles, people introduced cane toads to Australia in 1935. Instead, the amphibian's population exploded, and today, cane toads number roughly 200 ...

For decades, Australia has tried to rein in cane toads by investing in disease-focused research, fungal approaches, scent-based traps, and government-led response efforts. Even so, some of the ...

Scientists from Macquarie University working with Bunuba Indigenous rangers and the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) in Western Australia have trialed a new way to ...

Sometimes, good intentions build the ladder to greatness. But sometimes, they pave the road to disaster, and few stories make that clearer than the saga of the cane toad in Australia. Back in 1935, ...