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The American Bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) is a robust, brilliant green amphibian that occurs in nature only in North America, from southern Québec and Ontario, throughout the Mississippi drainage, south to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico. Its natural range does not extend across the prairies and Great Plains or west of the Rocky Mountains.
Thriving populations of bullfrogs are today found all over the world because people have imported and released them in the hope of starting commercial farms to supply frogs and tadpoles for fish bait, pets, educational dissection, and human consumption. For the most part, frog farming has proven to not be a viable enterprise. In any case, it inevitably results in unwanted, noisy, and ecologically damaging American bullfrog populations.
Top Priorities of the Bullfrog Eradication Program:
1) Keep American bullfrogs out of the Greater Victoria Watershed
2) Contain the existing populations within peninsular Victoria
3) Develop the tools for eradication
4) Carry out a dedicated, co-ordinated, and properly resourced eradication program
