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AFTER more than two decades, it is difficult to tell which has been the more invasive: the ubiquitous cane toad or filmmaker Mark Lewis’s documentary charting the botched introduction of the pest to Australia’s sugar fields.

The filmmaker’s documentary has charted the botched introduction of the pest to Australia’s sugar fields.

Since the original Cane Toads: An Unnatural History documentary was released in 1988, the alien amphibians have spread from coastal Queensland to waterholes across the top half of the continent. Lewis’s film, meanwhile, has colonised the world.

In terms of numbers, while each female toad may lay more than 30,000 eggs at a time, it has taken Lewis a quarter of a century to spawn one toad-focused, 3D cinematic offspring.

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