Re-post from AVA UEP SIG:
From: Brendan Carmel
Date: 19 June 2011 14:21:33 AWST
To: UnusualExoticPets@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [UnusualExoticPets] Pesticide usage
Reply-To: UnusualExoticPets@yahoogroups.com
For those of you who fortunate to be present when Matt Landos presented at
the AVA conference in Adelaide, you would have heard about the concerns with
pesticides and dangers with inappropriate usage/agents and their effects on
animal (and human health). It was riveting stuff, very thought provoking,
and depressing!
There is a petition supported by the WWF regarding pesticide usage (and
abuse) in Australia. I urge all members to consider supporting this. The aim
is to promote proper scientific based decisions about usage of such
products:
http://wwf.org.au/act/takeaction/Australian-pesticide-laws-must-be-fixed
Brendan
