That means poison baits can be an important conservation tool to control numbers of foxes and feral cats and give native species a better chance of survival. But baiting comes with the risk that other ...
Most Australians have heard of 1080 bait. Many of us know that it's a dangerous and toxic substance used as a poison, but not ...
1080 is a metabolic poison called sodium fluoroacetate and is used to kill unwanted pests such as rats, stoats and possums. While there is no direct evidence of the poison causing harm ...
But southeastern Australia has no species of poison pea, meaning native animals in this region may be more susceptible to 1080 than elsewhere. Our research suggests a huge number of poison baits ...
But baiting comes with the risk that other animals will eat it. In Australia, 1080 has long been seen as a kind of “wonder poison” – a chemical deadly to introduced species that many native ...