Increase in rodenticide in poisoning raptors (1 Viewer)

[Murmur]

Toxic rat poison killing growing number of England’s birds of prey

Rise leads to suspicion that those who wish to kill birds of prey have cottoned on to impact of brodifacoum

www.theguardian.com

I came across this while reading around the killing of eagles in Dorset.

It seems pretty clear that brodifacoum is being used to poison raptors around shooting estates, unless, of course this is just another of those wonderful coincidences like the hen harrier disappearances and all those raptors which committed suicide using chemicals which had been banned for over a decade...Yes, that will be it, just a coincidence...Nothing to see here...Just me leaping to totally unjustifiable conclusions...Sorry.

 

[Jonno52]

Thanks for this, Murmur. Apart from the sheer pity of it, it's the arrogant disdain of the people who keep getting away with it that sickens me.