AB 1788, the bill to ban cruel and deadly rodenticides (rat poison) in California, will be heard by the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee tomorrow morning. We have word that the bill is in danger.
We’re grateful for your help in urging the Arizona Game and Fish (AZGF) Commission to pass a rule banning the organizing, participating in, and promoting of wildlife killing contests in the state. Hundreds of bobcats, coyotes, cougars, foxes, rabbits, badgers and other species are killed in these contests every year in Arizona.
We’re grateful for your efforts thus far to convince the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife (MassWildlife) to adopt a regulation banning wildlife killing contests in the Commonwealth. We must continue to push for a ban on these barbaric events, during which participants compete to kill the greatest number, the largest, or even the smallest of the target species for entertainment and prizes.
We need your help TODAY to pass a bill that would prohibit wildlife killing contests in New Jersey. During these barbaric events, participants compete to kill the smallest, the largest, or the greatest number of wildlife for entertainment and prizes. Coyotes, foxes, squirrels, and raccoons are slaughtered during these events – such as the Family Squirrel Classic in Hammonton and the Annual Predator Hunt in Barnegat – in the Garden State.
In response to public outrage about coyote killing contests, the Division of Fisheries & WIldlife (MassWildlife) is continuing to hold public listening sessions on this topic around the state. These meetings are important opportunities for MassWildlife to hear from YOU. Wildlife killing contests are barbaric events during which participants compete to kill the greatest number, the largest, or the smallest of the target species for entertainment and prizes. Coyotes are killed in these contests every year in Granby and Hyannis.
Good news: AB 1788, the bill to ban cruel and deadly rodenticides (rat poison) in California, passed the Senate by a 49-16 vote. This bill, sponsored by Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica), will greatly restrict the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides, which harm many non-target animals including bobcats, coyotes, mountain lions, owls and hawks. It also prohibits first generation anticoagulant rodenticides on state properties.