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The February/March 2022 issue is now available online! News: New citizen science project needs farmers, gamekeepers and pest controllers Editor's Interview: Gareth Davies, owner of Pest & Drone Solutions Features: BASF looks to recruit pest controllers to its ambassador programme
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To protect the future availability of high potency rodenticides to farmers, gamekeepers and pest controllers, new practical guidelines have been issued by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK. CRRU chairman Dr Alan Buckle said: “The need arises because, as responsible rodenticide users already know, annual monitoring of barn owls from 2016 to 2021 finds stubbornly static rodenticide presence in …
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Surrey-based Cleankill Pest Control is strengthening its operations in West Sussex and Hampshire with the acquisition of privately owned family company Des Bone Ltd. Owners Ann and Richard Bone approached Cleankill when the couple decided to retire as they wanted to sell the business to a company with a similar ethos and working practices. Mr Bone has worked in the …
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The CPD Certification Service has independently verified BPCA’s individual recognition and continuous professional development (CPD) scheme. Independent auditors assessed BPCA Registered to the CPD Certification Service’s stringent quality processes, making Registered the only scheme in the sector to carry this mark of excellence. BPCA joins other CPD providers such as Oxford University, The Football Association (FA), the Carbon Trust and …
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Pest control businesses from Blaenau Gwent should be given the chance to bid for the council’s pest control contract in future, a councillor has said. At a meeting of Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council’s community services scrutiny committee this week, extending the current pest control contract was looked at by councillors. Public protection service manager David Thompson explained that a …
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With every treatment undertaken, pest controllers need to consider the hierarchy of control, and this is the top of a new BPCA webinar, which will take place on Thursday, March 3. The webinar, which will start at 12.30pm, will be hosted by John Horsley, BPCA’s technical support officer. Mr Horsley said: “We need to consider the most appropriate control technique …
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