Toads to Fight Toads

Another strategy for fighting cane toads in Australia: release small sterile male cane toads in areas without infestation to "teach" local predators that they're not suitable prey. (News source.)

Cane Toads vs Dogs

Five dogs have died in a week in the Northern Territories from cane toad poisoning. (News source.)

Cane Toads

A parasitic worm may be the latest weapon in Australia's fight against the invasive cane toads. (News source.)

Sydney's Australian Museum is drawing the ire of Northern Territory residents because it put up husbandry instructions for cane toads. (News source.)

Toad-Culling Day

Plans are afoot to create a Queensland (Australian) toad-whacking day against the invasive cane toads. The RSPCA will only support it if toads are killed by freezing. (News source.)

Toads vs Quoll

The WWF is warning that a quoll population is in danger from the expanding cane toad invasion. (News source.)

Toads vs Cancer

Australian scientists are investigating toad toxins for anti-cancer purposes. (News source.)

UK: Natterjack Concerns

Chytrid fungus has been found in Walney, Cumbria, raising concerns for the local natterjack toad population. (News source.)

Toads Kill Crocodiles

Ten freshwater crocodiles were found dead after eating cane toads, "on Auvergne Station near the Northern Territory and Western Australia border." (News source.)

Toad Reintroduction

New Mexico officials are planning to reintroduce a rare subspecies of the boreal toad to Rio Arriba County, NM. The last reported sighting in that county was in 1996. Once common, the toads have been decimated by the chytrid fungus. (News source.)

Cane Toads

Flooding in Queensland is sweeping cane toads faster than natural dispersal rates would normally distribute them. (News source.)

Malaysia: Death by Toad

During a fishing trip, a Malaysian man caught and cooked a toad, eating it and its eggs, sharing it with his nephew. Shortly after, they began foaming at the mouth and vomiting. They were rushed to the hospital, but the man died on the way. The nephew is recovering. (News source.)

Toad Traffic

Some Berks County, Pennsylvania, developers will be adding signs within a development warning traffic of the presence of the state-endangered Eastern spadefoot toads. (News source.)

Toad Loan

The World Bank is loaning Tanzania 3.5 million for environmental protection of the habitat of the endangered Kihansi Spray Toad. Captive-born toads are expected to be released in stages over the next year. (News source.)

Toad Fight Continues

Efforts to stem the tide of cane toads in Darwin, Australia, appear to be working. (News source.)

Tadpoles Go Home

Several hundred Puerto Rican crested toad tadpoles are being sent back to their homeland after being hatched at the Miami-Dade zoo. (News source.)

Man Charged with Intent to Lick

A 21-year old Kansas City man was charged with possessing a Colorado River toad, with intent to lick it for hallucinogenic purposes. (News source.)

Natterjack Conservation

Farmers in Co. Kerry, Ireland, (or at least specified zones in the county) are being offered payments to dig shallow ponds for the rare natterjack toad. (News source.)

Amphibian Research

First, an article on research into frogs in Sri Lanka.

Also, some research into the occasional cross-breeding of spadefoot toad species.

Bufo Fatality

Another case of a dog killed in southern Florida, after biting a marine toad. (News source.)

Aussie Govt. vs Toads

There are claims by FrogWatch (shouldn't that be ToadWatch?) that the government in Australia is not doing enough to help stop the spread of invasive cane toads. (News source)

Fighting Cane Toads

Australian researchers are looking at another weapon against the invasive cane toads: spinal disease. (News source.)

More on Cane Toads

Researchers want toad-proof fencing set up between the Northern Territories and Western Australia to protect the latter. (News source.)

Drought around Brisbane appears to be reducing cane toads in that location. (News source.)

Cane Toads Expanding

The invasive cane toad may be expanding its range into Western Australia in spite of the best efforts of biologists to stop it. (News source.)

Toad Genome

Australian scientists are working on a cane toad genome program, to identify the invasive species' weaknesses. (News source.)

Cane Toads

When trapping cane toads, use soft mating calls rather than loud ones, research suggests. (News source.)

Dwarf Crocs in Trouble

A population of dwarf freshwater crocodiles in north Australia may be in danger of an invasion by the cane toads. (News source.)

Crows Eat Cane Toads

Folks in Darwin, Australia, have observed that crows have figured out how to safely eat the invasive noxious cane toad. (News source.)

Wyoming Toad Conservation

40 Wyoming toadlets are being raised at the Detroit Zoo, and will eventually be either sent to other conservation breeding facilities or released into the wild. (News source.)

Toads Cross the Road

A surprise emergence of western toadlets in British Columbia is causing problems as volunteers are trying to help the amphibians as they cross a road. (News source.)

Toad vs Dog

A 20-lb terrier in Florida died after biting a cane toad. (News source.)

Mosquitos vs Toads

A biologist discusses how eliminating standing water for mosquito prevention can affect a spadefoot toad population, which feed on mosquitos. (News source.)

PA: Toad Halts Road

Spadefoot toads, rare in Pennsylvania, have killed a road project due to concerns over a Northumberland County wetlands where they have been found. (News source)

Natterjacks

Conservation efforts are attempting to stop the decline of natterjack toads on Norfolk (UK) dunes. (News source.)

Australia and Cane Toad Menace

One researcher of the cane toad invasion in Australia suggests that the species is beginning to integrate within Australian ecosystems with less harm to natives than originally reported by conservationists. (News source.)

Toad Emergence Imminent

An Oregon nature center is watching as hundreds of thousands small Western toadlets gather for mass emergence from the ponds. (News source.)

Spadefoot Toads

A Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officer talks about spadefoot toads here.

Parasite for Fighting Cane Toads

Another potential weapon against invasive cane toads in Australia: parasitic lungworms. (News source.)

Cane Toad Spray

An Australian company is developing a spray that will anesthetize and kill marine toads humanely. (News source.)

Cleveland Zoo Breeding Toads

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has spent 10 years trying to breed the endangered Puerto Rican Crested Toads, and this year have 20 new offspring to raise. (News source.)

Toad Tunnel Didn't Work

A famed "toad tunnel" built in Yolo County, California, to protect amphibians crossing roads was apparently rarely used. The local toad population appears to have vanished. (News source.)

Cane Toads in Samoa

A cane toad has been discovered on Samoa, and other sightings have been documented, causing officials to start an awareness campaign to help prevent its full introduction. The pest species is already found on American Samoa and Fiji. (News source.)

Cane Toad Virus

Scientists have been working for five years on a virus that will keep cane toads from reproducing. (This should effectively halt the spread of this introduced species in Australia, similar to the success with introduced rabbits.) They are now testing the virus to make certain it only affects the toads and not native species of amphibians. (News source.)

Cane Toad Cannibalism

Australian scientists are suggesting that conservation efforts attempting to reduce the population of the introduced cane toad focus on the species' prediliction for cannibalism. Adult toads will wave a toe on one of their hind limbs to lure in small toads, then pounce. (News source.)