Zimbabwe to phase out DDT

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1991
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CTA. 1991. Zimbabwe to phase out DDT. Spore 31. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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DDT is to be phased out of the anti-tsetse campaign in Zimbabwe: environmentalists have found traces of the chemical, and shell thinning, in the eggs of the fish eagle population of Lake Kariba. Preliminary results of surveys, carried out by...
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DDT is to be phased out of the anti-tsetse campaign in Zimbabwe: environmentalists have found traces of the chemical, and shell thinning, in the eggs of the fish eagle population of Lake Kariba. Preliminary results of surveys, carried out by Natural Resources Institute scientists and financed by the UK Overseas Development Administration's Geographical Division, have led the Zimbabwean Government Veterinary Service to look into ways of using deltamethrin as a substitute for DDT. Like DDT, deltamethrin will be handsprayed on tree-trunks to control tsetse flies Natural Resources Institute Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime Kent ME4 4TB, UK
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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