About Us- An Introduction
The STOP THE TOAD FOUNDATION is a not-for-profit, non-government
organisation incorporated in Western Australia in October 2005.
The Foundation’s main purpose is to prevent cane toads from
invading Western Australia. It undertakes on-ground cane toad control
work and seeks to support the independent activity of other concerned
groups working to mutually agreed strategic purposes, operations
and procedures. It tries to ensure that all efforts against cane
toads are cooperative, integrated, strategic, cost-effective and
safe for participants.
The Foundation secured $500,000 of WA Government funding in 2005
to support cane toad control in the Northern Territory, and within
Western Australia in the event that populations of toads do establish
in this state.
A further $100,000 was given to the foundation by the WA Government
to assist with their annual Toad Muster in October 2007. The board
of the Foundation aims to raise further funds to maximize on-ground
action along the length of the cane toad front.
The strategic focus of the Foundation is to alert all Western Australians
to the potential impacts of the cane toad and engage everybody in
the fight to protect Western Australia from the toad’s imminent
invasion.
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