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Ninety years ago, cane toads were introduced to Australia to fix a beetle problem - but it quickly turned into one of the ...

How Australia’s Cane Toad Became the Most Disastrous Creature? Posted: June 6, 2025 | Last updated: June 6, 2025. In the 1930s, Australian farmers faced a major threat to their sugarcane crops ...

South American cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to help eradicate native beetles that were destroying sugar cane crops. The toads didn’t care much for the beetles, but they did spread ...

Since their introduction in 1935 in an attempt to control cane beetles that were devastating Queensland’s cane sugar crops, cane toads (Rhinella marina) have significantly multiplied and spread, ...

Since cane toads were imported from South America in the 1930s, they have left a trail of native animal casualties across northern Australia, wiping out local predator species such as goannas ...

Cane toads (Rhinella marina) were brought to Australia in the 1930s, and quickly began to wreak havoc on native species (SN: 2/3/14). Their harm comes not from what they eat, but from what eats them.

Cane toads were brought to Australia in 1935 to eat pests that feed on sugar cane crops. As with many foreign species in Australia, the toads quickly became pests themselves.

Cane toad culls In Brisbane, King’s volunteer toad busters include father and son team Luke and Austin Rogers, who moved to Australia from the United Kingdom over a decade ago.