Manufacturers and users of pesticides combined with some universities and conservation bodies to form a UK Rodenticide Resistance Action Group (RRAG) in April 2000. RRAG is developing strategies of integrated rodent-pest management to minimise the effects of resistant rats on agriculture, health and the environment. Integrated management combines different methods to control rats, including trapping and making the environment less suitable for rats. This partnership hopes to contain the spread of resistant rats and also to resolve potential conflicts between pest control and conservation.
RRAG Chair
Mr A Macnicoll, Central Science Laboratory
RRAG Secretary
Oliver Madge, British Pest Control Association