Researchers at the University of California released a\u00a0study\u00a0today indicating that rat poisons increasingly pose a significant risk for California\u2019s imperiled\u00a0Pacific fishers, small, forest-dwelling mammals that are protected under the California Endangered Species Act. The study shows that increasing numbers of fishers are being exposed to, and dying from, greater varieties of rat poisons, or rodenticides, found at illegal marijuana farms. It also affirms reports and data from across the state that rodenticides continue to poison and kill numerous California wildlife species.\u00a0\u201cThese poisons are silently killing our country\u2019s most majestic wildlife by indiscriminately causing animals to literally bleed to death from the inside out,\u201d said Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. \u201cIt\u2019s time to ban these poisons from the market to protect fishers, bald eagles, great horned owls and kit foxes from a painful, gruesome fate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1321626","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n