There is a growing movement in the Bay Area to stop using certain kinds of rat poison. It’s not out of concern for the rat but rather the predators that eat the rats.
We’re taking a deeper dive into the effort to save wildlife from these dangerous chemicals, and the advocates who are convincing many to make a change.
It all started two years ago when a family of great horned owls died in Safety Harbor after eating rats with toxic levels of blood-thinning rat poison, or rodenticide. People saw the owls drop dead and became overnight activists, and what started in one city is now spreading across the Tampa Bay area.
Last month, we told you about a family of hawks with telltale signs of rodenticide poisoning — the closing of their third eyelid, the nictitating membrane, making it visible over their eye.
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