Publications by authors named "L Mocogni"
Anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in common buzzards: Impact of new rules for rodenticide use.
Sci Total Environ
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- Rodenticides are important for managing rodent populations, but they also pose a risk to birds of prey, like buzzards, which can be unintentionally poisoned.
- In the UK, a stewardship scheme was introduced in 2016 to reduce the risk of bird exposure to second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), but a study found no significant decrease in SGAR exposure among buzzards after this change.
- The study revealed a troubling increase in brodifacoum exposure and multiple SGARs in buzzards post-stewardship, suggesting that the current measures may not be effective and further revisions may be needed.