Save Wildlife, Pets & Children from Super Toxic Rat Poison
- by: Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife, Inc.
- recipient: Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles City Council
Please support Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife (www.clawonline.org) and Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Koretz's to phase out and implement regulations on the sale, purchase and use of anticoagulant rodenticides (rat poisons) - that kills untargeted wildlife including bobcats, hawks, owls, coyotes, as well as pets.
Super toxic rat poisons are indiscriminant killers. Known as second-generation anticoagulants, these highly toxic rodenticides have been linked to the poisonings of wildlife, pets and children and are harmful to Los Angeles’ environmental health.
Anticoagulant rodenticide is lethal to all native wildlife, causing secondary and tertiary poisoning of apex indigenous predators. For example, once a rat consumes poison, it becomes sluggish and easy prey for bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, owls, hawks and other predators. Those animals are then poisoned as well. Pets are also often unintended victims in the same way.
Even the Los Angeles Unified School District uses more than twenty extermination poisons including anticoagulant rat poison. There are many natural pesticides that can be used in place of this poison that will not pose so many environmental and health risks.
For more information or to find out how you might help: www.clawonline.org
Dear Mayor Garcetti and City Councilmembers:
Please support Case #13-1580 - Councilmember Paul Koretz (CD5) and Councilmember Tom LaBonge (CD4) co-authored motion for the Department of Recreation and Parks and other city Departments to report to the City Council on the policies and procedures that dictate the use of poisons to control the rodent population in the parks and hillside areas of LA, including the Santa Monica Mountains, Hollywood Hills & Griffith Park.
I would further support an ordinance that includes:
- A city-wide ban on the sale and purchase of anticoagulant rodenticide.
- Prohibit the municipal, commercial, industrial, professional and private use of anticoagulant rodenticide particularly in our hillsides and other ecologically sensitive areas and within 100 feet of parks, school zones, playgrounds and play structures.
- A system of fines be instituted to support this ordinance with increased fines in our hillsides and ecologically sensitive areas as well as within 100 feet of our parks, school zones, playgrounds and play structures.
Sincerely,
Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife
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