Australia mulls biowarfare against unwanted critters
Authorities take no prisoners in the battle against invasive species
FOR SIX months a plague of rodents has infested Australia’s south-eastern farmlands. Mice are still “running around like they’re training for Tokyo”, says Xavier Martin, a grain farmer in New South Wales, the worst-hit state. The vermin devour crops, burrow into hay bales, climb into beds and pollute drinking water. That has set off a debate about how to end the scourge.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “No more Mr Mice Guy”
Asia June 26th 2021
- Myanmar’s civil war is becoming bloodier and more brutal
- Australia mulls biowarfare against unwanted critters
- A rare investigation into a police killing in the Philippines
- One in nine Indonesian women marries before the age of 18
- A political memoir has South Koreans asking whom politicians serve
- Japan’s Ainu people have a new museum. Many feel it omits a lot
More from Asia
Can Donald Trump maintain Joe Biden’s network of Asian alliances?
Discipline and creativity will help, but so will China’s actions
What North Korea gains by sending troops to fight for Russia
Resources, technology, experience and a blood-soaked IOU
Is Arkadag the world’s greatest football team?
What could possibly explain the success of a club founded by Turkmenistan’s dictator
After the president’s arrest, what next for South Korea?
Some 3,000 police breached his compound. The country is dangerously divided
India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening
The gamble behind $17bn of fresh deals with the Kremlin on oil and arms
AUKUS enters its fifth year. How is the pact faring?
It has weathered two big political changes. What about Donald Trump’s return?