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This warty, poisonous pest threatens the entire ecosystem. These scientists have a secret weapon

On the edge of a dark suburban park in Brisbane, teams of volunteer frog hunters gather around Gary King as he pushes another writhing specimen into a cooler box. “Who has some more?” asks King, the local leader of this year’s Great Cane Toad Raid, a small and ultimately futile campaign to crush Australia’s massive… Read More »