Sentences with phrase «poisoning black rats»
The National Park Service began poisoning black rats last year to prevent the rodents from feeding on the eggs of endangered seabirds.
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The South Florida Multi-Species Recovery Plan (MSRP) warns of these rabbits coming into contact with pesticides and «poisons used to control black rats.»
Bleeding ulcers sometimes cause black, tarry stools, and dogs have also been known to ingest rat poison which induces this appearance in their stool.
Indeed, the MSRP warns of these rabbits coming into contact with pesticides and «poisons used to control black rats.»
A U.S. magistrate has found a Santa Barbara environmental activist not guilty of violating federal law two years ago, when he allegedly fed black rats on Anacapa Island vitamin pellets to counteract poison that park rangers dropped from helicopters to exterminate the rodents.
The Fund for Animals and the Channel Islands Animal Protection Assn. filed an emergency petition Tuesday, saying the poisoning of black rats was wiping out the indigenous island deer mouse.