Rodents destroy around 70 million tonnes of grain each year. What if we could trick them into looking elsewhere for their food?
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With temperatures plunging, rodents have started seeking the warmth and food inside our houses. Here’s how to deal with them effectively and humanely – without accidentally catching native animals.
Only three specimens of the blue-grey mouse ever existed, and two are lost. We plunged into a search for the third, in the hope we might find the species isn’t extinct at all – just missing.
The NSW government has secured an extremely toxic bait to try to end the mouse plague. But there are safer alternatives.
Imagine constantly living with mice. When you go to sleep they run across your bed, the stench of dead mice fills the street. As an expert on mouse outbreaks, let’s look at the issue in more detail.
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Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University
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Professor Emeritus in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney
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Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Ornithology, Ecology, Conservation and Parasitology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate professor, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO
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Research Officer, CSIRO
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Senior Research Officer in Conservation Biology, University of Sydney
