Farmers in the Riverina region of New South Wales are celebrating a bumper rice harvest. But a mouse plague is raising fears about the region’s long-awaited revival.
Bird deaths in central and southern NSW have been blamed on baits laid out to catch mice, sparking warnings about poison use.
The state Environment Protection Authority investigated bird deaths around Forbes, Parkes, Dubbo, Narromine, Condobolin and the Riverina, and found some of them had been caused by baiting. Grain eating birds can be impacted after eating the pesticide coated grain, EPA executive director regulatory operations Carmen Dwyer said.
A flock of dead galahs has been found in Parkes, as people are warned about correct mouse-baiting procedures.(Kelly Lacey/Facebook)
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