As a local to the region the Cane Toads were introduced (Cairns) I can assure you the Daintree has had them for decades. The Daintree is only about 120 miles north of Cairns and I can remember as a child back in the 70's seeing them at Cape Tribulation (another 40 miles north of Daintree).
You may be thinking of Darwin about 2000 miles west of Cairns which has only just started getting them in the last few months.
There are 2 ways to kill cane toads... the humane way, and the FUN way.
The humane way involves bagging then freezing them. Which many dont like doing for obvious reasons.
The fun way involves either playing chicken with them on the roads (the toads rarely win against most cars, however those smaller buzzboxes may flip at high speeds). On some the main highway there can be "splatters" of toads as close as a metre appart, and on a 15mi stretch of road thats ALOT of toads and the smell when the sun comes out to dry them is spectacular.
The other fun way if you have nasty neighbors involves practicing your golf swing by slicing them up onto your neighbors roof. Be warned however, beurocracy and stupidity have once again reared their heads with the RSPCA (like the ASPCA of the US) is calling for maximum penalties against those found inhumanely treating toads (golf clubs, etc) this carries a maximum $100,000 penalty IIRC.
It will be impossible to eradicate the Cane Toads except through a biological means (virus/bacteria genetically targetting them) as their population is beyond comprehension. At any one time during a downpour there could be up to 50 toads in one yard, there are over 100,000 yards in Cairns alone (say 40 sq mi area) and that doesnt include the "bush" which easily covers the whole area of Queensland (about 666,000sq mi) and on into Northern Territory. So you can easily see that they could easily number into the tens or hundreds of millions.
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As a local to the region the Cane Toads were introduced (Cairns) I can assure you the Daintree has had them for decades. The Daintree is only about 120 miles north of Cairns and I can remember as a child back in the 70's seeing them at Cape Tribulation (another 40 miles north of Daintree).
... the humane way, and the FUN way.
You may be thinking of Darwin about 2000 miles west of Cairns which has only just started getting them in the last few months.
There are 2 ways to kill cane toads
The humane way involves bagging then freezing them. Which many dont like doing for obvious reasons.
The fun way involves either playing chicken with them on the roads (the toads rarely win against most cars, however those smaller buzzboxes may flip at high speeds). On some the main highway there can be "splatters" of toads as close as a metre appart, and on a 15mi stretch of road thats ALOT of toads and the smell when the sun comes out to dry them is spectacular.
The other fun way if you have nasty neighbors involves practicing your golf swing by slicing them up onto your neighbors roof. Be warned however, beurocracy and stupidity have once again reared their heads with the RSPCA (like the ASPCA of the US) is calling for maximum penalties against those found inhumanely treating toads (golf clubs, etc) this carries a maximum $100,000 penalty IIRC.
It will be impossible to eradicate the Cane Toads except through a biological means (virus/bacteria genetically targetting them) as their population is beyond comprehension. At any one time during a downpour there could be up to 50 toads in one yard, there are over 100,000 yards in Cairns alone (say 40 sq mi area) and that doesnt include the "bush" which easily covers the whole area of Queensland (about 666,000sq mi) and on into Northern Territory. So you can easily see that they could easily number into the tens or hundreds of millions.