Assessing Two Different Aerial Toxin Treatments for the Management of Invasive Rats.

ABSTRACT: Aotearoa-New Zealand has embarked on an ambitious goal: to completely eradicate key invasive mammals by 2050. This will require novel tools capable of eliminating pests on a large scale. In New Zealand, large-scale pest suppression is typically carried out using aerial application of the toxin sodium fluoroacetate (1080). However, as currently applied, this tool does not remove all individuals. A novel application method, dubbed '1080-to-zero', aims to change this and reduce the abundances of target pests to zero or near-zero. One such target is black rats (Rattus rattus), an invasive species challenging to control using ground-based methods. This study monitored and compared the response of black rats to a 1080-to-zero operation and a standard suppression 1080 operation. No differe

SUBMITTER: O'Malley TDR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8833531 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature