Environmental

Legal Petition Calls for New York State to Ban Super-toxic Rat Poisons

Powerful poisons cited in widespread poisonings, including Central Park hawks

Albany, NY–(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2014.  A coalition of wildlife and conservation groups filed a legal petitiontoday urging the state of New York to ban super-toxic rat poisons responsible for indiscriminate poisonings of children, pets and wildlife—including the family of Pale Male, the famous red-tailed hawk living in New York City’s Central Park. The petition, filed with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, cites government…

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