Mouse Plague Grows to Biblical Proportions Across Eastern Australia - North West NSW towns of Coonamble, Dubbo & Gulargambone and Toowoomba in South Queensland heavily affected, farmers want to use the banned highly toxic pesticide zinc phosphide which would play havoc with native wildlife

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Mouse Plague Grows to Biblical Proportions Across Eastern Australia - North West NSW towns of Coonamble, Dubbo & Gulargambone and Toowoomba in South Queensland heavily affected, farmers want to use the banned highly toxic pesticide zinc phosphide which would play havoc with native wildlife (www.theguardian.com)

Zinc phosphide is highly toxic in acute exposure to humans, characterized by acute renal failure and tubulo interstitial nephritis. BioMedCentral.com (bmcpharmacoltoxicol.biomedcentral.com).

Zinc phosphide is highly toxic in acute exposure to humans, characterized by acute renal failure and tubulo interstitial nephritis. [BioMedCentral.com](https://bmcpharmacoltoxicol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40360-017-0144-7).

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8943499/feral-cats-australia-killed-poison-sausages-shot/ (article from 2019)

So here's how one hand doesn't know what the other one is doing.

The Aussie government has been poisoning the predators that could fix this problem.

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Both are invasive. But I agree, I'd think the mouse populations would be the priority at this point.

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