Cane Toads
(1988)
The Cane Toad was imported into Queensland from Hawaii in 1935 for a special reason. That reason was to combat the Grey-Back beetle that was destroying the Sugarcane crop. The experiment failed: the beetle could fly and the toad couldn't. However, the Cane Toad adapted to its new surroundings and now breeds so rapidly that it has become a pest of plague proportions spreading at the rate of 27 kilometers a year, but this programme also looks at how they have become an accepted part of logical culture and popular mythology. Canes Toads won the 1988 Wildscreen Festival Special award