In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of
the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage
insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the
Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming
native wildlife and killing predators with its lethal skin toxin.
Today, hundreds of millions of Cane Toads have spread across the
northern part of Australia and continue to move westward. The
humble Cane Toad has become a national villain. Cane Toad Wars
chronicles the work of intrepid scientist Rick Shine, who has been
documenting the toad's ecological impact in Australia and seeking
to buffer it. Despite predictions of devastation in the wake of
advancing toad hordes, the author's research reveals a more complex
and nuanced story. A firsthand account of a perplexing ecological
problem and an important exploration of how we measure evolutionary
change and ecological resilience, this book makes an effective case
for the value of long-term natural history research in informing
conservation practice.
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