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Cane toads are usually the last thing you want to see outside, but some Territorians turn out in droves to hunt them down. The first toad bust in over 10 years at Darwin's botanical gardens was a huge, rainy success, capturing more toads than anyone expected.

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00:00Tons of toads, the treasures of the first night of toad busting in this city oasis in over 10 years.
00:10My kids had buckets, yeah I reckon it was probably 15 kilos of cane toads in my bucket.
00:16It was full to the brim and it was already full and Jen comes over carrying 10 more cane toads
00:21and we're trying to put them in and more going out and it was all pretty hectic.
00:26The growing cane toad population have been impacting flora and fauna in the botanic gardens for years.
00:32We've got lots of native lizards and snakes but also a lot of the local community walk their dogs through the gardens here as well
00:40and toads can be fatal to all of those animals.
00:43It's just good for all the native species.
00:45It's just sad to see them all being killed by cane toads and yeah we want to do as much as we can.
00:53While a local taxidermist is taking this load of toads, thoughts already turned to next year.
01:00We get quite a few in the dry season as well so started thinking that perhaps it could be a tourism product.
01:06What about the instead of a million dollar barrow we've got a million dollar toad.
01:10After a night of hard work the botanic gardens is one step closer to being totally free.
01:16that's to be a dollar.
01:18Thanks for listening.
01:19Wtf C.
01:23This is a criança and this is ailian of God's family.
01:26We've got the whole supply of g Felicia, which is a child that is a child that can be a child that is a child that has a child that can be better than a child.
01:32This is called the brain.
01:34This is a child that can be a child that's a child that can be released to a child that can be found as a child.
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