Tell North Sydney Council to Stop Poisoning Wildlife.

North Sydney Council's contractor is using three SGAR active ingredients — bromadiolone, brodifacoum, and difethialone — in commercial centres across the LGA. The council has described this as "short durations when needed", but secondary poisoning risk exists regardless of frequency. Send a direct email to the General Manager asking them to stop.

Audit Record

NSW SGAR Council Audit — North Sydney Updated 27 Feb 2026

SGAR Status

Confirmed User

Three SGAR active ingredients in use in commercial centres. Council describes use as short duration — secondary poisoning risk exists regardless of frequency or duration.

Confirmed SGAR Active Ingredients in Use

Bromadiolone brand not confirmed

Brodifacoum brand not confirmed

Difethialone most acutely toxic SGAR

Contractor

Not disclosed

LGA Region

Sydney Metro

Why This Matters

Duration and frequency do not reduce the risk of secondary poisoning.

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

First-generation anticoagulants (FGARs) and non-anticoagulant products such as Selontra (colecalciferol) provide effective rodent control with substantially lower risk to non-target wildlife. North Sydney Council can transition without compromising its pest management obligations.

Councils that have already made the switch: Blue Mountains, Hornsby, Byron, Camden, Campbelltown, Inner West, Clarence Valley, Kiama, Edward River, and others have all implemented SGAR-free policies. North Sydney Council — an inner-harbour Sydney LGA where powerful owls, raptors, and urban wildlife are documented — has every reason to eliminate SGARs from its commercial centre pest management contracts and adopt a formal SGAR-free policy.

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