A shocking photo of a flock off dead galahs posted to an Australian sub reddit could be confirmation of the brutal toll efforts to halt the devastating mouse plague is having on native animals.
Stop all this looking for someone else to blame
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June 1, 2021 12.03am
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THE PANDEMIC
Chip Le Grand is right (“Treacherous Waters”, Insight,
The Age, 29/5). We hesitated on testing and vaccination and got lockdown. As a paediatrician seeing children from across my region, I have noticed dangerous complacency. We procrastinate on vaccines, and complain loudly about rural areas sharing lockdown, but we have stopped worrying about cold symptoms.
NSW Farmers says truck after truck is being turned away from ports because grain is contaminated with mice faeces and urine, amid increasing fears about the impact of the plague on export markets.