Household rat poisons found to be ‘unacceptable risk’ to native animals. So why aren’t they banned?
- Written by John White, Associate Professor in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Deakin University
John Smith , CC BY-NDThe Australian authority that regulates pesticides has finally released its long-delayed review of the rodenticide poisons used by millions of Australians to combat rat and mice infestations.
As researchers who study Australia’s amazing native owls (and more recently, the rodenticide poisoning of wildlife), we were...





