NSW’s plan to use more potent mouse plague poison could devastate threatened parrots, experts say

Conservationists call for state's application to distribute more toxic pesticides to be denied as crop areas overlap with locations of the superb parrot

The New South Wales government should be blocked from using a more potent poison to deal with the state's mouse plague after reports emerged of a mass bird death, BirdLife Australia and scientists say.

Experts say the areas where the government wants to distribute the more toxic rodenticide, bromadiolone, overlap the known locations of threatened superb parrots and could devastate the species.