Tell Mosman Council to Act on What It Already Knows.
Mosman Municipal Council's contractor Flick uses brodifacoum for rodent control — and in correspondence with Animal Liberation, council has acknowledged the potential secondary poisoning risk this poses to native wildlife. Acknowledgement without action is not enough. Send a direct email to the General Manager asking them to stop.
— yet no change to practice has been made.
Mosman Council knows the risk. The question is whether it will act.
Secondary poisoning of native wildlife
SGARs accumulate in the tissue of poisoned rodents and remain lethal for days. Native predators — powerful owls, wedge-tailed eagles, raptors, quolls, and antechinus — are exposed when they eat affected animals. Research led by Prof. Raylene Cooke and Assoc. Prof. John White at Deakin University has documented SGAR toxins in the livers of native predators across Australia.
Active regulatory review by the APVMA
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority is currently reviewing SGAR registrations following evidence of widespread non-target harm. Councils continuing to use these products risk being on the wrong side of an emerging regulatory shift.
Effective alternatives already exist
Non-anticoagulant products such as Selontra (colecalciferol) provide effective rodent control with no secondary poisoning risk to native wildlife. Mosman Municipal Council has the contract relationship with Flick and can direct a transition immediately.