Growing market for cane toad gloves

Golf, it seems, is the natural enemy of the cane toad.

For decades, Queenslanders have armed themselves with clubs to vent their frustration with the pest species, or exercise the inner sadist, through rounds of "Cane Toad golf"

Come this weekend, toads will have a new golfing accessory to fear - the glove.

Toads caught during this year's Toad Day Out in north Queensland will be recycled to make leather for wallets and, ironically, golf gloves.

"Apparently there is quite a market for toad-skin golf gloves in Japan," Cairns organiser Lisa Ahrens said.

Dalrymple MP Shane Knuth, who was the driving force behind the Toad Day Out concept, said it was hoped some 20,000 toads would be handed in to drop off points in Townsville, Cairns and Charters Towers.

He said there would be prizes for those who caught the biggest and the most toads, and Westpac had agreed to pay a $1 bounty per toad caught to charity groups.