Bludgeon Toxic Toads, Lawmaker Advises
A government lawmaker advised people in northern Australia to bludgeon to death toxic toads that are advancing toward the region’s main city, Darwin.
Cane toads were imported from Central America in 1935 to control beetles on sugar cane plantations. Since then, the toads, which release noxious secretions from glands on their backs when threatened, have hopped all the way to Australia’s northeastern coast and south into parts of New South Wales state, killing much of the native wildlife that eat them.
Liberal Party lawmaker David Tollner said the best way to stop the spread was to hit the toads on the head “with cricket bats and golf clubs.”
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