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Article: National Park Service Plans to Indiscriminately Poison Birds And Other Wildlife, Reports Fund for Animals.
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- October 29, 2001
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VENTURA, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ --
Today, The Fund for Animals and the Channel Islands Animal Protection Association wrote to the National Park Service opposing its decision to use helicopters to deliberately shower Anacapa Island with grain pellets poisoned with Brodifacoum, a highly toxic anticoagulant rat poison with a proven track record of killing non-target birds, mammals, and other wildlife.
In the letter from The Fund's attorney, Jonathan Lovvorn, the organizations demanded that the Park Service "immediately cancel or delay the proposed action" because it will kill federally protected wildlife in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, ...