RATS in the News

California Assembly Expands Protections Against Toxic Rat Poisons

California Wildlife Bill to Tighten Rat Poison Restrictions

California Assembly Approves Expansion of Toxic Rat Poisons Ban

Editorial: We can give Mountain Lion Kits an Easier Life than P-22 had

California Regulators Will Reassess Widely Used Rat Poison

Wildlife Advocacy Group Sues Rat Poison Manufacturer Bell Laboratories, Inc., over Misleading Product Claims

Court orders state to re-evaluate widely used rat poison because of risks to other animals

First District Court of Appeals September 27, 2022 Decision in Favor of RATS

Poisoning the Solution: Lisa Owens-Viani and the Campaign to Save Raptors From the Ravages of Rodenticides (CounterPunch, April 2022)

Raptors and Rodenticides–the Unintended Consequences of Rat Poison (a Sustainable World Radio Podcast)

National Bird at Risk from Environmental Toxics

California must do more to protect raptors

Biden must stop SGARs from poisoning bald and golden eagles

Talk by Daniel Hofstadter on AR exposure in Barred Owls in Northern California, March 18, 2021

Radio interview with KSQD and the Program Exploring Santa Cruz, with host Jean Kratzer, January 18, 2021

HUM-RATS presentation to Friends of the Arcata Marsh January 15, 2021

Governor Signs Bill to Curb Use of Rat Poisons That Have Sickened Mountain Lions

Rat Poison Kills Great Horned Owl, sickens baby birds at SLO County Nature Preserve

Wild Hope Magazine Spring 2020

Stopping yellowjackets from hogging Danville hummingbird feeder (San Jose Mercury News, June 2020)

Butternut Bakehouse honored for opposing rat poison

RATS Featured in Living Bird magazine, Summer 2015

Bobcats Are the Latest Victims of Rat Poison in California

Poison or Predators, Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 2015

Grist, July 2014

An Owl’s Life, an Eagle Project by Chetan Gomatam, Troop 457, Sunnyvale, CA. July 2014

Earth Island Journal article (June 2013)

Our 1/30/2013 press release re EPA cancellation order

Great new article on rodenticides by Audubon of Kansas.

Ted Williams writes about rodenticides in the Jan/Feb issue of Audubon magazine. Listen to Ted on Vermont Public Radio.

Conservationists Smell a Rat in Peet’s Deal. Across California, wildlife advocates concerned about the proposed buyer of Peet’s are turning their back on the popular brewer.

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