Cane Toads Australia: In 1935, Australia released 2,400 cane toads to control crop-eating beetles today, an estimated 200 million invasive toads threaten 75 wildlife species, making it one of the country’s most notorious ecological disasters
Some solutions turn out to be far worse than the problem they were meant to fix, and Australia’s cane toad story is perhaps the most famous example. In 1935, the government brought toads from Hawaii to Queensland, hoping they would eat the beetles destroying the state’s sugar cane. Nearly 91 years later, there are an […]
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