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Masked owl (Tyto novaehollandiae), one of many birds of prey at great risk of secondary poisoning Belinda Davis

May 20, 2021

Mouse plague: bromadiolone will obliterate mice, but it’ll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too

Robert Davis, Edith Cowan University; Bill Bateman, Curtin University; Damian Lettoof, Curtin University; Maggie J. Watson, Charles Sturt University, and Michael Lohr, Edith Cowan University

The NSW government has secured an extremely toxic bait to try to end the mouse plague. But there are safer alternatives.

Gould’s goanna is commonly eaten in Indigenous communities, but can contain high levels of rat poison. Robert A. Davis

May 1, 2018

Australia’s reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chain

Michael Lohr, Edith Cowan University and Robert Davis, Edith Cowan University

Rat baits are widely used to keep rodent pests at bay. But many Australian reptiles are resistant to the poison, potentially spreading these deadly compounds up the food chain.

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