Sale of rat poisons could be restricted to protect Australian wildlife | Australia news
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/rat-poisons-sale-could-be-restricted-australia-wildlife
Sale of rat poisons could be restricted to protect Australian wildlife | Australia news
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/rat-poisons-sale-could-be-restricted-australia-wildlife
17 Comments
Better panic buy the rat poison right now
Most Australians couldn’t tell a rat from a marsupial
Can only see upsides to this, too many natives are getting killed by eating poisoned rats. Mouse traps sure are grosser but are effective enough. There’s also the humane traps but they ultimately just relocate the problem.
I concur
2nd generation anticoagulants should be greatly restricted. Too many secondary and tertiary poisoning risks
1st generation anticoagulants and zinc phosphide should be more widely available as replacements.
Good. This should have happened decades ago.
Poison is absolutely barbaric. Only pathetic bottom feeding scum use that shit. Which apparently is half the fucking backwards ass country
I use a trap now , I was a bait user but it got the better of me especially listening to the local owl of a night .
Nutella they love it and the new traps are easy to use compared to the old wire ones
Glyphosate has to go also.
About time!
Just use traps and bait them with Apples. Rats love Apple
I’m pretty sure glue traps are banned as well right? Now if we could only do something about roaming cats the poor natives might stand a chance
Good.
Tree felling, not so much.
I had rodents in the roofspace for a year.
The pest controller would just open then roof access, climb the ladder, and throw bait blocks into the roofspace. There was no ‘expertise’ involved.
This ban has been created by ‘natural’ animal lovers.
So ‘natural’ animal lovers have more say than people with a rodent problem in their house…
I’ve worked at a program level in agricultural rodent biology
I can see a revival of coumatetralyl (Racumin)
Is not even that effective anyways, the rotating traps that catch rodents live are more efficient. The problem is what to do with them afterwards…
Honestly skipping the alphabet is missing the bigger issue. Cats should come before rats (yes, I’m a cat owner x 2)