Article 5KDN9 NSW plan to use ‘napalm’ poison to control mouse plague rejected over fears for wildlife

NSW plan to use ‘napalm’ poison to control mouse plague rejected over fears for wildlife

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Graham Readfearn
from Environment | The Guardian on (#5KDN9)

Pesticides regulator says it has concerns about the effects of bromadiolone on animals that eat mice

The national pesticides regulator has refused a request from the New South Wales government to allow farmers to use a rodent poison described as napalm for mice" around crops to battle the devastating mouse plague.

Conservationists had warned the use of bromadiolone would have devastating affects on native species in the central west and put endangered birds at risk.

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