00:00Gloves on and buckets at the ready.
00:05It's a humid evening at the Territory Wildlife Park outside of Darwin, but this trainload
00:10of people aren't here for the native animals, they're looking for something else.
00:14When it gets dark we'll go towards the, right on the water's edge, they often just sit.
00:21Cane toads, the feral pest that's now an all too common sight right across northern Australia.
00:27For Joel Mitchell and his family, cane toad hunts at the park have long been a family
00:32favourite outing.
00:33We love looking at critters, we love the top end, we love all the wild and wonderful creatures
00:39at night time.
00:40It's a whole different world at night.
00:41This lagoon is swarming with baby toads at first, but when the sun sets...
00:46Oh, there's one.
00:50Once caught, the toads are counted and weighed and will be humanely disposed of.
00:55We've been out for just under an hour now, we've caught a lot of little baby toads but
00:59no real big ones, but even those little ones will grow up to be big toads, so we're removing
01:04them from the park which will make a big difference.
01:07Sometimes we get a lot and sometimes it's just, they're not around.
01:13A quiet night for these toad busters, but a success nonetheless.
01:18How many toads did you get tonight?
01:20Just one.
01:21Just one?
01:22Yeah.
01:23And it's a big one.
01:24It's a big one, but also it's a good community night.
01:25We get a few people from the local community out and just have a bit of fun and that kind
01:28of thing.
01:29Over the next week, hunts like this are scheduled across northern Australia as part of the Great
01:34Cane Toad Bust, which is back for another year.
01:37The aim of this is to educate Australians on the impacts of cane toads environmentally
01:42as well as they impact domestic pets and agricultural industries.
01:45Pushing back one toad at a time.
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