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Pesticide Use

Even small numbers of predators can have a huge impact on suppressing rodent numbers, which is especially useful, if they can erupt into plague numbers. The difference is in having a few poor-dispersing predators like snakes where there are high concentrations of mice; and ,more mobile owls and other birds of prey, over the larger area. Using rodenticide instantly kills birds of prey. Snakes are largely shy and harmless, unless provoked, yet are killed on sight. Living with wildlife is shown to be a more sustainable outcome than using chemicals, on which we've become dependent, and make and ever-worsening problem for the farm economy. Picture by Simon Mustoe.

How nurturing predators makes more food: why we need farms with teeth

by simon February 7, 2024

After recent mouse plagues in Australia the state and federal governments allowed widespread use of second-generation rodenticides. However, everything we know about farm pest management tells us this solution isn’t …

February 7, 2024

Pesticide Use

How toxic is rat poison? Answer? Very!

by simon January 17, 2024

Introduction I’ve recently been doing a risk assessment for a seabird island rat eradication. While I rarely condone widescale use of toxins in conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation …

January 17, 2024

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