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'Toadbusters are here to save the world ' By Roberta Mancuso. Daily Telegraph.

Toadbusters claim 10,000th victim

LIKE their ghostbusting counterparts, Toadbusters are here to save the world – from cane toads at least.

Scores of volunteers from Gladstone in Queensland's south-east will be celebrating a rather unusual milestone next week
when they capture their 10,000th toad after years of hunting the reviled pest.

And like the Ghostbusters, who lived by the catchcry "they're here to save the world", Gladstone's toad chasers are on
a mission to save the environment – one toad at a time.

"I think people volunteer with the thought they personally can do something positive for their environment,"
Toadbusters coordinator Anna Hitchcock said today.

"No one really likes toads either, so that helps."