Pale Male Stands Vigil Plus Linda Maslin of PA's Responses from NYC Audubon Regarding Rat Poisons and Hawks

Beautiful Pale Male stands vigil in Central Park, photo courtesy of www.palemale.com/

 

 

Long time blog reader and contributor Linda Maslin has been working on the raptor poisoning problem and has been in touch with Glenn Phillips the Executive Director of New York City Audubon. 

 

Donegal,

This is a response I received from NYC Audubon.  I had received another response a month or two ago when I had complained to them about the poison, in which they said they are trying to work out the problem,  but it's on my other computer which is being repaired.

Regards,

Linda Maslin

Blue Bell, PA

 

 

Glenn's response of August 4th, 2012

 

Linda-

I've been out of the office and have gotten a couple of emails about rat poison at AMNH.  Im not sure why you would think we were unwilling to tackle this question...I will be back on the 13th, and will talk with my contacts
there. As you probably already know, NYC Audubon has been actively promoting rodent control policies that are safer for raptors. Our brochure is available on our website. We have verbal agreement from several city
agencies to follow those guidelines. AMNH is not among them, but the property they are on is technically owned by parks, so it should not be too hard to get them to conform. I will let you know.

 

 

 And the promised update to Linda from Glenn--

 

Just to follow up... I spoke with my contact at Parks, who had already spoken with AMNH, they have agreed to follow Parks Departments protocol, which is not to use any poison from March-August, and not to use the two most dangerous chemicals: Brodifacoum and Difethialone.

We've also spoken with colleagues at the NYS Department of Conservation, who will be helping us draft legislation that will outlaw both of those chemicals in NYC, and possibly in the state (they'd like that, but aren't sure that it is possible.)

-Glenn
 

Glenn Phillips
Executive Director
New York City Audubon
71 West 23rd Street, Room 1523
New York, NY 10010

 

If you'd like to thank Glenn Phillips and NYC Audubon for their efforts see address above. 

 

And it would be a fine time for all to write their law makers regarding the dangers of rat poison.  Get on the keyboard folks, take out that pen!

AND A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND A KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK TO ALL THOSE WORKING TOWARD A POISON FREE ENVIRONMENT FOR HAWKS, DOGS, CHILDREN, US AND ALL THE CREATURES OF THIS GOOD GREEN EARTH~

Donegal Browne