Toxin-laced rat carcass baits for stoat elimination

Stoats are implicated in the severe decline of certain iconic endemic species New Zealand. notoriously difficult to control, as they highly cryptic and often neophobic around control techniques such traps poison baits tunnels. killed through secondary poisoning both aerial hand-lay operations targeting other mammalian pests. We prototype trialled a novel approach stoats: wild-caught ship rats that had consumed (and subsequently died from) lethal dose 1080 cereal captive facility.