2016 Prime Minister’s Prizes reward innovation and science
19 October 2016 – www.pm.gov.au/media/2016-10-19/2016-prime-ministers-prizes-reward-innovation-and-science
Tonight we recognise some of Australia’s greatest scientists, innovators and teachers for outstanding achievements in their fields.
The $250,000 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has been awarded to evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Shine of the University of Sydney in recognition of his work to ensure Northern Australia’s peak predators – snakes and lizards – are more likely to survive the cane-toad invasion.
Professor Shine has created traps for cane toads, taught quolls and goannas to avoid toads, and now plans to release small cane toads ahead of their potential arrival in new areas so predators survive their first meal of cane toad but have an aversion to eating them again. [Read more…] about PM’s Prizes – press release from Prime Minister Turnbull