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February 27, 2007
Toad Hunters Offered Beer Bounty
Australians are freaking awesome! You don't see free beer bounties running around this country now do you! Of course, we don't have rampant invasive species trying to destroy the entire country either. Ours tend be localized disasters. ;) So for your beer drinkers out there here is an once in a life time opportunity to drink yourself silly. I wonder how much beer you'd have to drink to make up the cost of a flight to Australia?
If you aren't aware of the Cane Toad it's a horrible monster. It weights about 8 lbs and of course is totally poisonous. It breeds about 30,000 eggs at a time and does that twice a year. The tadpoles poison kills fish that eat them and all predators in Australia are easily killed by biting these monsters. This is another man made disaster, the Cane Toad wasn't native to Australia it was brought in from South America to deal with a pest in the sugar cane. Now it's trying to take over all of Australia.
Read more over at Treehugger.
Posted by Jamison at February 27, 2007 11:27 AM
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Not needed here; hunters are required to provide their own beer. I think it's actually a requirement for the hunting license.
Posted by: reno at February 28, 2007 8:16 AM
Yet...people still want to introduce non-native species like the Asian Oyster in the Chesapeake Bay.
You would think we would have learned our lesson by now. Apparently not.
Posted by: Robb Black at February 28, 2007 11:28 AM
Scary isn't it? It just shows that those who propose such things either have no concept of ecosystems or food webs, or just don't care.
Posted by: Dianne at February 28, 2007 11:33 AM