The survival of even a single pair of mice jeopardizes the whole project, as the mouse population can recover incredibly quickly.” The organization contends the nonnative, invasive mice, likely introduced by sailing vessels in the 19 th century, are messing with the natural environment and threatening the ashy storm petrel, among other seabirds.Īs Fish and Wildlife puts it in arguing for the poison plan, “The only way to allow the ecosystem to recover is to ensure 100% eradication of the house mice. “Point Blue would like to voice our strong support for this project,” says a plea on the website of Point Blue Conservation Science, which partners with the federal government to manage the islands. So the mice are essentially co-conspirators in the demise of the storm petrels, and the question is: How do you poison 60,000 or so mice who live on an island 30 miles off San Francisco?Ĭalifornia Plan to dump rat poison on Farallon Islands questioned by California Coastal Commission When the mice population drops, as it does seasonally, the owls then eat the eggs of the ashy storm petrel, a bird some consider a future candidate for the endangered species list.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service has found the mice indirectly guilty of serial murder in the death of seabirds and sentenced them to death by poisoning, with a key review of the extermination plan up this week before the California Coastal Commission.Įach year, burrowing mainland owls fly to the Farallones to feast on the teeming mouse population. They’re out there with ocean views in every direction, picnicking on plants, salamanders and insects like there’s no tomorrow.īut there might not be a tomorrow for the lowly rodents, because the United States government is gunning for them. The mice of the Farallon Islands think they’ve got it made.
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