![]() That lobbying effort helped lead to the issuing in July of a temporary (18 months) provincial ban on the sale and use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs).ĪLSO READ: Rare owl found dead in Saanich yard to be sent for necropsy ![]() She and other advocates such as the BCSPCA have lobbied the ministry about the secondary poisoning that happens when owls and other raptors consume rodents that have eaten bait laced with rodenticides. “I’m just wondering why this is outside the Ministry of Environment, of all places,” Pfeifer said. ![]() The warning labels on the boxes listed their contents as rodenticide with the active ingredient bromadiolone, a substance among those temporarily banned by the province back in July. “We walked over to the closest building … and we found what’s called grain bait,” she said, noting that dyed whole grains were discovered under two black rodent bait boxes. After arriving at the scene, Pfeifer took photos, bagged up the owl and inspected the area – she said it didn’t surprise her to find rodenticide nearby. ![]() Ministry of Environment’s Jutland Road office in Victoria.ĭeanna Pfeifer, director of local grassroots campaign Rodenticide Free B.C., received a call from a resident about the owl the evening of Nov. (Photo courtesy of Deanna Pfeifer)Ī Saanich woman and advocate for the protection of owls is raising alarms again, after a dead great horned owl was found near the B.C. Rodenticide-laced grain, coloured so humans can tell the difference, was found scattered underneath a rodent bait box at a Ministry of Environment office near where a great horned owl was found dead. ![]()
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