But baiting comes with the risk that other animals will eat it. In Australia, 1080 has long been seen as a kind of “wonder poison” – a chemical deadly to introduced species that many native ...

But southeastern Australia has no species of poison pea, meaning native animals in this region may be more susceptible to 1080 than elsewhere. Our research suggests a huge number of poison baits ...

1080 is a metabolic poison called sodium fluoroacetate and is used to kill unwanted pests such as rats, stoats and possums. While there is no direct evidence of the poison causing harm ...