10/13/2024
THE BIGGEST NEWS!! Today, Harvard's Animal Law & Policy Clinic submitted a formal legal petition to the MA Department of Agriculture requesting the immediate suspension of anticoagulant rodenticides registration/use in the state. I am one of the petitioners on behalf of Save Arlington Wildlife, along with Marci Cemenska of Save Lexington Wildlife; Erin Hutchings, Jodi Swenson, and Linda Amato of Cape Ann Wildlife, Inc,; Jane Newhouse of Newhouse Wildlife Rescue, Jim and Patty-Sears Joyce of Friends of Horn Pond.
So many thanks to the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program and the hard work of their students, to Marci Cemenska, who applied this case for consideration to the Clinic, and the other petitioners who work tirelessly to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife harmed by rodenticides in Massachusetts and offered invaluable data that made it possible.
I also want to give a shout out to Lisa Owens-Viani of Raptors Are The Solution (RATS) who offered some initial guidance and inspiration for exploring this avenue.
Now it's the state's move!
https://animal.law.harvard.edu/news-article/rodenticides-are-killing-massachusetts-wildlife-will-authorities-step-up/