Think you've found a cane toad?

The red, amber and green areas on the map below have different management actions for cane toads, described below:

Red: NSW Cane Toad Incursion Management Area

The majority of NSW is currently free of cane toads (approximately 98% of the mainland and all offshore islands). However, research modelling indicates that cane toads can establish over a significantly larger area of the state due to natural spread and movement over larger distances as stowaways.

Landowners and occupiers, members of the public, businesses and visitors to known cane toad infested areas need to be aware of the presence of cane toads, the risks of spreading cane toads and steps to take to manage the risks.

To keep the NSW Cane Toad Incursion Management Area free of cane toads, all suspect cane toads detected in this area must be reported, captured and positively identified before they are humanely euthanised.

Amber: Cane Toad Active Control Area

The NSW Cane Toad Active Control Area is bounded by the NSW Cane Toad Movement Control Area to the east and major barriers to cane toad movement including the Clarence River to the west. The NSW Cane Toad Active Control Area is a critical area for surveillance and strategic cane toad control because it is known to encompass the current NSW cane toad invasion frontline from which cane toads can disperse in southerly and westerly directions, to occupy a greater proportion of the state.

Effectively managing cane toads in the NSW Cane Toad Active Control Area requires the continuous, coordinated and strategic involvement of allied agencies, organisations and individuals to deliver effective cane toad management.

All landowners, occupiers, visitors and individuals in the NSW Cane Toad Active Control Area must report the presence and control of cane toads with cross-tenure cane toad management plans developed, documented, mapped and implemented for cane toads detected in the NSW Cane Toad Active Control Area.

Green: Cane Toad Movement Control Area

Cane toads have been present in an area of north-east NSW from 1965. Due to the capacity of cane toads to reproduce in large numbers and then to disperse, cane toads have now established endemic populations across approximately 1% of NSW in the north-east region of NSW. Because there is currently no broadscale method to control the cane toad, maintaining awareness of where cane toads have established, reporting and managing them strategically will assist in protecting local priority assets and slowing the spread and further establishment of cane toads in NSW. Particular attention should be paid to preventing the spread of cane toads in luggage, vehicles, green waste and other materials.