Second generation rat poisons are so potent that they’re banned for home use in Europe and North America. But here, you can pick them up at Bunnings or Coles. Robert Davis, Associate Professor ...

A recent study has renewed concerns about the potency and deadliness of rat poison on native wildlife. Dr Judy Dunlop, ecologist from Curtin University WA, tells Kylie Baxter on Hobart Drive ...

Unfortunately, these potent poisons do not magically disappear after the rodent is dead. For example, it’s well known owls who eat poisoned rodents suffer the same slow death from internal bleeding.

Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation anticoagulant ...

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Humans have been poisoning rodents for centuries. But fast-breeding rats and mice have evolved resistance to earlier poisons. In response, manufacturers have produced second generation ...

How does rat poison end up in a Tasmanian devil? Quolls and Tasmanian devils are carnivores. They eat mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles, finding food by hunting—or by scavenging dead ...

Despite statewide restrictions on the deadly poisons, new research shows they’re still infiltrating the food web.

A wildlife rescue center in D.C. has found that an increasing number of birds and mammals across the city are consuming, falling ill and dying from rat poison. Rodenticide, which contains ...

She was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to kill her husband with rat poison. This is the first-instance sentence in a trial with an abbreviated procedure before the preliminary ...

Over the last few years, animal advocates sought to limit the use of anticoagulant rat poisons due to the dangers they pose to wildlife and pets — even as Massachusetts cities continue to ...