New York – Six groups are petitioning New York State to ban a rat poison that is killing wildlife that feed on the tainted rodents.
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The wildlife and conservation groups say the rat poisonings have killed animals from more than 30 species.
The petition seeks to ban what are known as second-generation anticoagulants.
The groups cite necropsy reports prepared by the agency they’re petitioning, the State Department of Environmental Conservation.
A lawyer for one of the groups, the Center for Biological Diversity, tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/1xo80Zm ) the pesticides caused or contributed to the deaths of a long list of birds and animals between 1989 and 2013.
The Parks Department says the current citywide protocol is to suspend rodenticides during the nesting period of breeding red-tailed hawks in or near a park.