Cane Toad Discovered in Perth Suburb (Nov 16, 2010)
Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation.
The Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) is urging residents in Bayswater and surrounding suburbs to check their gardens for cane toads, after one was found in the Perth suburb. Cane toads have been listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union as among 100 of the world's worst invasive alien species.  For more information, see the DEC Cane Toads site.

Cane Toads are Evolving into Super-Invaders (Oct 19, 2010)
BBC Earth News.
Scientists have demonstrated a "runaway evolutionary effect" that is speeding up Australia's cane toad invasion; the invasive toads have increased their rate of spread fivefold in the last 70 years. The researchers found that toads living at the very edge of their range were "super-invaders", because they have bigger front legs and stronger back legs which enable them to jump and to invade new areas. Their offspring inherit this ability to move quickly into new territory. The findings are published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology article Evolutionarily Accelerated Invasions: The Rate of Dispersal Evolves Upwards During the Range Advance of Cane Toads. Cane toads are one of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) top 100 invasive species.

Weedbuster Week -- Sep 6-12, 2010
Weeds Australia.
Weedbusters is an awareness program that works with the community to achieve sustainable land and water management, primarily through increased public involvement in weed management, education and awareness projects.

Australia a Global Leader in Biodiversity Knowledge (Sep 29, 2009)
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett has released the only report in the world to document the planet's known animal and plant species - all 1,899,587 of them.

Australia's Biodiversity - Impacts of Climate Change (Aug 17, 2009)
Australian Government. Department of Climate Change.
New report released -- Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change: A strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's's biodiversity to climate change (PDF | 1.2 MB). The report provids more compelling evidence of the need to protect Australia's natural environment for future generations — not only from climate change, but from such other stressors as vegetation clearing and the impact of invasive species (see Climate change and invasive species (PDF | 296 KB).

Double Trouble: Pests and Climate Change Bulletin
Australian Invasive Species Council.
The Invasive Species Council has launched Double Trouble, a regular ebulletin highlighting current and future threats posed to Australia's natural environment by invasive species under climate change. Double Trouble is part of ISC's new pests and climate change campaign, which will push for better policies to deal with the deadly combination of climate change and invasive species.

New South Wales Invasive Species Plan 2008-2015
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (Australia).
By developing and implementing this eight year plan the NSW Government aims to prevent and effectively manage the introduction and spread of invasive species so that this significant threat is minimised.