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The poison killing our birds

By Witcinzia posted 12 hours ago

  
The APVMA once again lets down the Australian wildlife, which paradoxically gets killed by their prey. Watch out for rodenticides containing second-generation anticoagulant (SGARs) which include brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difethialone, difenacoum and flocoumafen and prefer the ones containing warfarin, if you have to resort to poison.
When a rat or mouse eats a SGAR-based bait, the poison remains in its body for up to a year. This is how it ultimately passes to predators and scavengers such as owls, frogmouths, raptors, quolls and goannas that eat the poisoned animal.
These native animals die slowly and painfully. This process, known as secondary poisoning, is well documented in predators in Australia and globally.
https://theconversation.com/household-rat-poisons-found-to-be-unacceptable-risk-to-native-animals-so-why-arent-they-banned-272346?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com
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