Brendan Borrell | Apr 1, 2008 | 9 min read
Stopping the Cane Toad When Australian scientists failed to find a virus to control one of the most insidious invasive species, they decided to build one. Is it worth the risk? By Brendan Borrell All photos by Brendan Borrell Related Articles: 1 "Everyone was very excited about that," he says, because it meant that there might be a pathogen that would kill the cane toad and only the cane toad. In 1993, CSIRO received another $2 million AUD ($1.4