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Environment
Tracey Ferrier

Landowners lock the gate on mandatory fire ant baiting

Some southeast Queensland farmers are concerned about a poison used to bait fire ants. (HANDOUT/Invasive Species Council)

Workers trying to eradicate invasive fire ants are being harassed and intimidated as landowners fight back against a mandatory baiting program.

Australia recently ramped up its decades-long effort to stamp out the South American super pest but there's growing resistance to how it's being done.

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