BOSTON — The red-tailed hawk from the New England Wildlife Center known as Falco returned to Beacon Hill on Monday as animal rights advocates promoted legislation to curtail the use of rodenticides that can be harmful across the food chain.
Falco clung onto the gloved hand of Zak Mertz, the center’s CEO, at the State House steps while surrounded by supporters who wore owl ear headbands and held posters that read, “Rat poison is raptor poison,” “Don’t poison our food” and “Say no to rat poison!!!”
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SWAMPSCOTT — The town of Swampscott launched a pilot program that utilizes rodent contraception instead of ecologically harmful rodenticides to curb rodent populations.
The program was initiated following the work of North Shore-based wildlife nonprofit Speak Up For Animals Inc. that has pushed for the end of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARSs) that kill animals by preventing blood from clotting, and spreads directly from rodents to predators like coyotes, dogs, and birds of prey that control rodent populations.
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