It is important to ensure their welfare is catered for as much as the mammals and birds that they and their team of volunteers are more acquainted with.

Thanks to Roy Hill staff for raising $150 for NAR causes in Port Hedland.

It is currently expanding its range and is now found on some Torres Strait Islands. If it gets here it could well cause major havoc to out waterways, like many of our other invasive species.

OK, so I added the zombie bit (watching too much Walking Dead) however it is true that nearly 50% of the population of these large amphibians are seriously unwell and look pretty scary.

Alan reports "counting about 15 of them within a 250m stretch of the gorge which was good to see due to the number of reported deaths attributed to Cane toads (Rhinella marina)"

A new program of reintroducing native mammals into AWC (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) controlled reserves has been announced. Tim Flannery has called it "One of the greatest mammal conservation initiatives ever undertaken in Australia."

I think the middle of road is where the camber is greatest and therefore the driest – also where you are least likely to be squished by passing cars - so numbers build up here where it’s both safe and dry. Extremely wet weather causes worms to leave the safety of their burrows and head for dryer ground as they cannot breathe underwater. Must be a field day for other wildlife in the area feasting on the high protein creatures during the downpours.

Maybe a great idea for Australia if jellyfish are an ecological problem (too many due to lack of natural predators) or even better, lets have plastic bag hunting robots that could tidy up the oceans and protect many species, especially our sea turtles that eat plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish.

See http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32965841 for more.

Come and visit me and our creatures at the Animal Ark stand, bring family and friends along as well. Last time some 5,000 attended so put it in your diary and come and see some great creatures and have a family day out.

Once away from endemic range without their natural predators they can breed uncontrolled and populations often explode. Their size alone means they can eat most other species and as prolific egg layers they overwhelm in numbers with highly mobile young toads once they metamorphose from the larval (tadpole) stage. Estimates are of 10-55km rate of territory expansion per year for the species in Australia.