Why We Need to Stop Using AntiCoagulant Rat Poisons – June 28, 2019

Raptors, like this barn owl, are especially vulnerable to rat poisons. Photo by Kristina Servant/Flickr Exterminating rats is big business in most urban areas with their steady supplies of trash and food, but the business of pest extermination has been having an alarming side effect — it’s also killing lots of non-target wildlife. Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Allen Fish, Director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory  and Lisa Owens Viani, Director of Raptors Are the Solution, about how anticoagulant rat poisons are harming our wildlife and what legal efforts, including a state bill, AB 1788, are underway to save our wildlife from rat poisons. The post Why We Need to Stop Using AntiCoagulant Rat Poisons – June 28, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.