Our on-ground partners
RANGELANDS NRM
NYANGUMARTA WARRARN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
KARAJARRI TRADITIONAL LANDS ASSOCIATION
RNRM are an organisation focused on natural resource management to enable landscape health, resilience and prosperity. They will be involved in TCZ through strategic planning and community engagement.
KARAJARRI TRADITIONAL LANDS ASSOCIATION
NYANGUMARTA WARRARN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
KARAJARRI TRADITIONAL LANDS ASSOCIATION
KTLA represents Karajarri people on whose lands the eastern quarter of the containment zone will sit, and on whose lands pre-barrier toad control efforts will be undertaken.
NYANGUMARTA WARRARN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
NYANGUMARTA WARRARN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
NYANGUMARTA WARRARN ABORIGINAL CORPORATION
NWAC represents Nyangumarta people on whose lands the western three-quarters of the containment zone will sit. Both Nyangumarta and Karajarri will play a huge role in the TCZ, by delivering on-ground monitoring and quality assurance.
ANNA PLAINS STATION
ANNA PLAINS STATION
ANNA PLAINS STATION
As the primary landholder in the containment zone, pastoral infrastructure at Anna Plains will need to be modified to make it toad-proof. The station will be working with land managers to deliver the infrastructure and maintenance work required of TCZ.
NITA DOWNS STATION
ANNA PLAINS STATION
ANNA PLAINS STATION
As a landholder in the core toad containment zone, water points at Nita Downs will need to be modified to make them toad-proof. The station owners will work with land managers and traditional custodians to put the containment zone in place and monitor it through time.
oUR SCIENTIFIC ADVISORS
For the past decade, Professor Ben Phillips and Professor Tim Dempster have engaged with traditional owners, government, philanthropists and impact investors to establish the Toad Containment Zone.
PROF. BEN PHILLIPS
Ben is a WA Premier’s Science Fellow at Curtin University focussing on biosecurity research. He has worked extensively across the Northern Territory and Western Australia on cane toad biology, ecology, and evolution and on how to control and reduce the impacts of cane toads on vulnerable native species, including northern quolls. Ben’s modelling work has identified where the Toad Containment Zone should be placed and how large it should be to stop the toad invasion to the Pilbara.
PROF. TIM DEMPSTER
Tim is Director of the Deakin University Marine Research and Innovation Centre where his research team focuses on tackling pest and parasite problems. With colleagues Mike Letnic (UNSW), Jonathan Webb (UTS) and others, his early work demonstrated that stopping toads accessing water in arid areas caused local extinction of invading cane toad populations. This led to the idea that a coordinated zone that stopped toads accessing agricultural water points between the Kimberley and Pilbara could halt invasion of toads to the Pilbara.
