Westside Pest Control owner interviewed by Jasmine Bala about BC’s recent permanent ban on some rodenticides.
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All content below is taken from the GlobalBC article.
British Columbia’s new restrictions on the use of certain rodent poisons may be having an unintended side effect, amid reports of growing rat and mouse populations.
As of Jan. 31, B.C. permanently banned the sale and use of a class of poisons known as second-generation anti-coagulants, with an exception for certain sectors deemed “essential services,” like food production or health-care facilities.
The move is an extension of an 18-month ban first implemented in 2021, which followed advocacy by conservationists who said the rodenticides were killing owls, along with some other raptors and predators that eat rats and mice.
We were noticing a lot of animals were being secondarily poisoned by rodenticides. Owls, which are the natural predators of rodents, were dying and are still dying actually,” Lisa Brasso, campaign director for Rodenticide Free BC, told Global News.
“There’s just a lot of dangers with rodenticides for the environment, human health and pets. Rodenticides don’t actually solve the problem in the long term. It’s been shown that rodent populations increase over time with the use of rodenticides, so there are more effective methods.”
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