Stop Wildlife Poisoning

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Dec 05 2008 | By: Claudia Hodkinson

I find it hard to believe  but last week President George Bush pardoned a man who poisoned and killed two bald eagles using Furadan.

According to this article in Seattlepi.com Leslie Collier, a Missouri corn and soybean farmer is guilt of “poisoning two Bald Eagles and killing them. The poisoning wasn’t purposeful. He meant instead to kill another American icon — coyotes, who he feared would kill wild turkey that had reappeared on property he farms after he believed they had gone extinct”.

“…he laid a trap of ground beef laced with the pesticide Furadan, which, under federal law, may not be used as animal poison. Seven coyotes died after eating the beef. But several other animals fed on their carcasses and died as well, including the bald eagles.”

I guess  bald eagles and coyotes among others, will be happy to say farewell to Bush and “Welcome Obama”.

Tags: Bald Eagle, furadan, George Bush, poisoning

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Category: Organophosphates | Date: Sep 03 2008 | By: Martin Odino

The Kenyan-based raptor conservationist Simon Thomsett once put it in a statement that seemed humorously ridiculous, “I literally saw vultures drop from the skies”. The vultures in refernce here had eaten furadan-laced carcass. Reading the King George Bald Eagle’s incidence, I get the feeling that he may have literally dropped from the skies and sadly succumbed to injuries sustained due to disorientation by the organophosphate poisoning.

Tags: Bald Eagle, furadan, organophosphate poisoning, Simon Thomsett, vultures

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