Stewardship News | Pest Magazine https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:06:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Preparing for the 2026 CRRU amendments https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/news/preparing-for-the-2026-crru-amendments.html Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:00:11 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=11909 The 2026 amendments to the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) guidelines are fast approaching, and the pest control industry must prepare to meet new certification and professional development requirements. [...]

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]]> Changes for farmers, gamekeepers and pest control businesses in new rodenticide stewardship report https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/news/changes-for-farmers-gamekeepers-and-pest-control-businesses-in-new-rodenticide-stewardship-report.html Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:00:59 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=10848 In readiness for all anticoagulant rodenticide purchases being restricted July onwards to their use inside and around buildings only, the latest UK Rodenticide Stewardship annual report includes for the first [...]

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]]> Twelve years of monitoring barn owl breeding by CRRU UK https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/news/twelve-years-of-monitoring-barn-owl-breeding-by-crru-uk.html Fri, 19 Jan 2024 06:00:45 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=10767 The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) UK has monitored barn owl breeding in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation Partnership (WCP) every year since 2011. Over the study’s 12 years, [...]

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]]> CRRU calls for questions “from the sharp end” ahead of SGAR changes in 2024 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/news/crru-calls-for-questions-from-the-sharp-end-ahead-of-sgar-changes-in-2024.html Wed, 23 Aug 2023 05:00:48 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=10404 Next year’s changes to rodenticide authorisations, effectively preventing all second- generation anticoagulants from being applied away from buildings, is set to have consequences for pest controllers. So, the Campaign for [...]

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]]> Could delinquent minority restrict rodent control options for responsible majority? https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship/could-delinquent-minority-restrict-rodent-control-options-for-responsible-majority.html Wed, 17 Aug 2022 03:30:46 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=9490 Another year of “stubbornly static”, and in some cases rising, rodenticide residues in barn owls has prompted an uncomfortable question about the use of poison baits: could irresponsible practices by [...]

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]]> Latest rodenticide surveillance finds stubborn barn owl residues https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship/latest-rodenticide-surveillance-finds-stubborn-barn-owl-residues.html Mon, 25 Apr 2022 05:00:58 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=9193 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 [...]

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]]> Rare UK eagle’s rodenticide death shines spotlight on need for responsible rodent control https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship/rare-uk-eagles-rodenticide-death-shines-spotlight-on-need-for-responsible-rodent-control.html Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:00:18 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=9140 The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use said this week a poisoned white-tailed eagle found in Dorset is dramatic and regrettable evidence of the need for universally responsible use of rodenticides. [...]

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]]> Citizen science project needs pest controllers, farmers and gamekeepers https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship/citizen-science-project-needs-pest-controllers-farmers-and-gamekeepers.html Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:00:59 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=9015 The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) has said rodenticide effectiveness could be “hit or miss” in large swathes of the UK due to the unknown resistance status of rat [...]

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]]> Significant implications for rodenticide users of new label text specifying bait-station standards https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/professional-development/stewardship/significant-implications-for-rodenticide-users-of-new-label-text-specifying-bait-station-standards.html Wed, 19 Jan 2022 09:00:47 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=8927 The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) said changes required by Health and Safety Executive to legally binding instructions on rodenticide product labels have significant implications for users in pest [...]

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]]> CRRU to launch abridged Code of Best Practice in 2022 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/news/best-practice/crru-to-launch-abridged-code-of-best-practice-in-early-2022.html Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:00:10 +0000 https://www.pestmagazine.co.uk/?p=8809 The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) will, in mid-January, publish an abridged adaptation of the CRRU Code of Best Practice in pest rodent control. The need, it said, arises [...]

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