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SGAR Use Confirmed — City of Ryde

Tell the City of Ryde to Lead by Example.

In 2022, City of Ryde led a motion at the LGNSW Annual Conference calling for a statewide ban on SGARs. But through recent correspondence, Animal Liberation has confirmed that Ryde still uses Muskil Dual Active — containing bromadiolone and difenacoum, two potent SGARs — in its own operations. Send a direct email urging the City of Ryde to apply its own advocacy to its own practices.

Audit Record

NSW SGAR Council Audit — City of Ryde Updated 27 Feb 2026

SGAR Status

Confirmed User

Muskil Dual Active (bromadiolone + difenacoum) confirmed in use in council operations — despite Ryde having led the 2022 LGNSW motion calling for a statewide SGAR ban.

Confirmed SGAR Products in Use

Muskil Dual Active bromadiolone + difenacoum

                    Also in Use (Non-SGAR): Selontra (colecalciferol) — non-anticoagulant, no secondary poisoning risk
                

Contractor

Not disclosed

LGA Region

Sydney Metro

Leadership Record

LGNSW Motion L12 — Statewide SGAR Ban — Tabled by City of Ryde 2022 Annual Conference

City of Ryde Called for a Statewide SGAR Ban Ryde led Motion L12 at the 2022 Local Government NSW Annual Conference, calling for a retail ban on SGARs, national advocacy, KTP nomination under the Biodiversity Conservation Act, and encouraging all landholders to adopt wildlife-friendly rodent management.

Status CARRIED LGNSW Conference

The LGNSW Policy Platform explicitly supports a ban on SGARs as part of its biodiversity protection goals. Animal Liberation and other environmental organisations commended Ryde's leadership.

The contradiction: Through direct correspondence with Ryde's Team Leader of Natural Areas, Animal Liberation confirmed that Muskil Dual Active — containing bromadiolone and difenacoum — is still used in council operations. Ryde advocated for a statewide ban while continuing the practice it called on others to stop.

Why This Matters

Ryde called for a statewide ban. It should start in its own operations.

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

The City of Ryde already uses Selontra (colecalciferol) — a non-anticoagulant product with no secondary poisoning risk — in its own operations. The transition to fully SGAR-free rodent management requires a formal policy decision and a contract update to remove Muskil Dual Active. Nothing more.

Ryde already has the tools — and the argument. Ryde's LGNSW motion cited the same evidence now used by councils like Camden, Albury, Blue Mountains, and Inner West when they transitioned away from SGARs. The city already uses Selontra in its own operations. A formal resolution to eliminate Muskil Dual Active from all contracts and replace it with wildlife-friendly alternatives would require no new products, no new research — just the political will to apply Ryde's own publicly stated position.

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