{"id":1131994,"date":"2021-12-19T11:05:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131994"},"modified":"2021-12-19T11:05:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:05:17","slug":"feds-to-drop-3000-pounds-of-rat-poison-on-mice-in-californias-farallon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-to-drop-3000-pounds-of-rat-poison-on-mice-in-californias-farallon-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds to Drop 3,000 Pounds of Rat Poison on Mice in California&#039;s Farallon Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeds-to-drop-3000-pounds-of-rat-poison-on-mice-in-californias-farallon-islands%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1131994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Farallon-Islands-Getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The California Coastal Commission approved a plan last week to allow the federal government to drop 3,000 pounds of rodenticide on the Farallon Islands to remove an infestation of mice that is a threat to local birds and other diverse species.<\/p>\n<p>The island chain, near San Francisco, is known as a center for research in marine biology and is occasionally in the news for long-distance swimming attempts, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/local\/2015\/08\/09\/former-ballerina-first-to-swim-farallones-to-golden-gate\/\">bravest<\/a> of endurance swimmers have traversed the 28-mile distance through frigid, shark-infested waters between the islands and the Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>But the mice, introduced by sailors a century ago, have become enough of a problem that the environmentally-minded Coastal Commission decided that enough was enough.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>San&nbsp;<\/em><i>Francisco Chronicle<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/Farallon-Islands-poison-drop-approved-16711182.php\">reported<\/a> Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29.175039246468\">\n<p>The federal government plan to rid the wildlife refuge of tens of thousands of invasive mice, which has been debated for months, was approved in a 5-3 vote by the California Coastal Commission on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\" readability=\"36\">\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u2019s approval was granted despite opposition expressed at the hearing by one of the world\u2019s most distinguished conservationists, Dr. Jane Goodall, who said the airdrop of a \u201csuper-toxic rat poison\u201d will \u201cinflict pain and suffering on a great many sentient animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rocky outcrop of sea stacks and islands west of the Golden Gate are home to 300,000 breeding seabirds, as well as five species of seals and sea lions.&nbsp;That unique biodiversity, however, also includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/2021-04-california-farallon-islands-mice-poison-16124499.php\">more than 1,000 mice per acre<\/a>, a population that has exploded in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just covering the ground,\u201d Pete Warzybok, Farallon Islands program leader for Point Blue Conservation Science research institute<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/2021\/04\/21\/biden-administration-revives-farallon-islands-poison-plan\/\">&nbsp;told the Marin Independent Journal in April.<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cDuring this time period, the island is riddled with mouse burrows. There are times when you walk outside and you actually see the ground undulating as the mice are running about below the surface. Quite frankly, it\u2019s a horrifying sight. It\u2019s like something right out of a horror movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The rodenticide will be dropped by helicopters. The plan is being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinij.com\/2021\/12\/17\/california-coastal-commission-approves-plan-to-poison-invasive-farallon-islands-mice\/\">carried out<\/a> by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It is unrelated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/12\/19\/mouse-tests-positive-for-deadly-hantavirus-in-southern-california\/\">report<\/a> of deadly hantavirus found in a mouse in San Diego County.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Coastal Commission approved a plan last week to allow the federal government to drop 3,000 pounds of rodenticide on the Farallon Islands to remove an infestation of mice &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}