THE BARN OWL AND THE WHITE-TAILED EAGLE

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Disappointing news from the pest control industry

When you call Three Counties Pest Control for assistance, you should know that as a business we take our stewardship of rodenticide best practice very seriously.

Sadly the industry has provided two sobering news items on Sunday 1st May 2022:

1. Rodenticide residues have been found in 88% of barn owls by the latest annual surveillance for the UK Rodenticide Stewardship Regime, operated by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use. The previous year’s figure was 87%.

2. A poisoned white-tailed eagle found in Dorset is dramatic and regrettable evidence of the need for universally responsible use of rodenticides. Media reports say brodifacoum was the rodenticide that may have been involved in the rare eagle’s death. Brodifacoum is approved for use by HSE under strict conditions in and around buildings and in sewers.The eagle was found on an unnamed Dorset estate in January, having been released on the Isle of Wight in a reintroduction programme. White-tailed eagles had become extinct in the UK in the early 1900s.

We are full members of the BPCA

This is the professional association for the UK public health pest management industry. The BPCA promotes the highest standards of professionalism within the industry, allowing only organisations that prove their competence to join as members.

We subscribe to the Think Wildlife Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use

Three Counties Pest Control will always endeavour to implement a seven point Code of Practice that the CRRU promotes for responsible use. The seven points are:

1. ALWAYS HAVE A PLANNED APPROACH

2. ALWAYS RECORD QUANTITY OF BAIT USED & WHERE IT IS PLACED

3. ALWAYS USE ENOUGH BAITING POINTS

4. ALWAYS COLLECT AND DISPOSE OF RODENT BODIES

5. NEVER LEAVE BAIT EXPOSED TO NON-TARGET ANIMALS AND BIRDS

6. NEVER FAIL TO INSPECT BAIT REGULARLY

7. NEVER LEAVE BAIT DOWN AT THE END OF THE TREATMENT

CONCLUSION

Please be assured that when you call Three Counties Pest Control, the request "can you just chuck some poison down" will be met with a robust and persuasive explanation as to why poison is low down in the hierarchy of treatments and for the very reason explained at the outset - the barn owl and the white-tailed eagle.

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