
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In 1935 Australians sugar cane plantations were sufferings huge losses due to a widespread infestation of the Greyback Cane Beetle & in a bid to control the insects farmers imported just over one hundred cane toads from Hawaii believing the toads would eat the insects & save the crops However nothing went as hoped -- the toads wouldn&t eat the beetles but they did reproduce at a rapid rate & with no predators to control their numbers in Northeastern Australia the large & ugly toads were soon unavoidable all across Queensland Filmmaker Mark Lewis examined the strange story of Australia&s leading invasive species in his 1988 documentary CANE TOADS AN UNNATURAL HISTORY & in 2009 he offered an update on this cautionary tale with CANE TOADS THE CONQUEST Shot using a digital 3-D process CANE TOADS THE CONQUEST chronicles the advance of the toads over two decades -- an estimated 15 billion cane toads can now be found in Australia & all attempts to control their breeding have failed While some Aussies have adopted the toads as a curious mascot parts of the country are being decimated by their environmental impact & the blunder of the cane toad epidemic is beginning to be felt outside Australia Age Rating PG