Help Save More Owls Ban 2nd Generation Rodenticides

It’s interesting to note that households could save the lives of more owls by installing owl boxes in their yards to control a rodent population rather than using powerful second generation rodenticides. Around the world, anticoagulant rodenticides, especially the “second-generation” ones (often shortened to SGARs) kill countless owls every year. These chemicals are notorious for secondary poisoning: a hawk/owl/fox/cat eats a poisoned rodent and gets dosed too.

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What do you think about a public program with videos (YouTube or others) to teach people how to encourage predator birds such as owls to their property instead of just baiting the rodents, accidentally killing these beautiful birds?