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Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Section 270B
Making of a Threat Abatement Plan

I, TONY BURKE, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, under section 270B(2) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby make the threat abatement plan for the listed key threatening process specified below.

Listed Key Threatening Process                                                                  Threat Abatement Plan
The biological effects, including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by Cane Toads (Bufo marinus).  Threat Abatement Plan for the biological effects, including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by cane toads.  Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities;  Commonwealth of Australia 2011

The Threat Abatement Plan for the biological effects, including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by cane toads (2011) will come into force on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

Dated this…eighth day of …June 2011.

……………………….
Tony Burke
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

Threat abatement plan for the biological effects, including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by cane toads

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

June 2011

Summary
Rationale
Objectives for the threat abatement plan
Implementation of the threat abatement plan
1. Introduction
1.1 Threat abatement plans
1.2 Threat abatement plan for cane toads
1.2.1 The threat
History and spread
Ecological impacts
1.2.2 Managing the threat
1.2.3 Involvement of stakeholders
1.3 Definition of priority native species and ecological communities
2. Objectives and actions
Objective 1 – Identify priority native species and ecological communities at risk from the impact of cane toads
Ecological communities
Species
Recommended actions and priorities
Performance indicators
Objective 2 - Reduce the impact on populations of native species and ecological communities
Performance indicators
Objective 3 – Communicate information about cane toads, their impacts and this TAP
Performance indicators
3. Duration, implementation and evaluation of the plan
3.1 Duration of the plan
3.2 Cost of the plan
3.3 Implementing the plan
3.4 Evaluating and reviewing the plan
References
Appendices

Summary

Rationale
Since the introduction of cane toads (Bufo marinus, now revised to Rhinella marina) to Australia in 1935, the ecological impact of this animal has aroused considerable concern. Cane toads use potent steroid-derived toxins as chemical defences. The active constituents of these differ from the toxins found in native frogs. All life stages of the cane toad (eggs, tadpoles, metamorphs and adults) are toxic, although toxin types and content change markedly during a toad's lifespan. Toxin levels (and thus, danger to native vertebrate predators) are high in eggs, decrease through tadpole life, are lowest at around the time of metamorphosis, and increase rapidly thereafter. It is difficult to tease apart the effects of cane toads from other threatening processes operating on native species and ecological communities