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On the Farallon Islands, a toxic rat poison will be used to brutally kill thousands of house mice who have been living there for over 150 years. Ask the new Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy for California's Natural Resources Agency to oppose the massive Farallon Islands rat poison drop, which is still pending approval. The toxic plan targets thousands of harmless mice – and would also put many other wild animals in the toxic crossfire.

Introduced in the mid-1800s, mice have long since integrated into the web of life. They are also a natural food source for thousands of resident and migratory seabirds.

The poison, Brodifacoum, is a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide that is so incredibly toxic that only a small amount is needed to infuse at least 3,500 pounds of bait pellets that are meant to kill thousands of mice.

Countless more so-called “non-target” animals, including fish, petrels, terns, sea lions, seals, whales, and more are likely to be poisoned by eating the Brodifacoum-laced cereal bait because it will be dropped by the bucket-load from helicopters, out at sea, over the islands. The toxin dispersing company, Point Blue Conservation, claims that it can somehow strictly control where literally thousands of poison pellets land, and who eats them in the Pacific Ocean below a helicopter's propeller wash. That's an insane claim!

Even the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates over 1,000 gulls will die from the poison by eating poisoned mice. Deaths from poison are prolonged and incredibly painful, with animals suffering massive internal bleeding. Some gulls will likely wash up dead on the shores of nearby San Francisco, where they could even be ingested by dogs running along the shore.

Jenn Eckerle is the newly appointed Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy for California's Natural Resources Agency. Ask her to oppose greenlighting the massive, toxic Farallon Islands poison drop that threatens thousands of animals of multiple species living in what is supposed to be a federally protected marine sanctuary.

Your polite, passionate plea can convince Eckerle how much the public opposes this horrific plan to kill thousands of wild animals in a national marine sanctuary 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, without valid ecological necessity.

The plan's real driver is money: profiteering by poison manufacturers and contractors who make millions poisoning wild animals, plants, and their homes, the environment.

Letter to Decision maker(s) for reference:

I am writing to you so you know how upset I am to learn about the brutal poison drop planned for the Farallon Islands. I strongly object to the mass killing of any wild animals, especially in a protected wildlife refuge and national marine sanctuary where poisons should never be used, for any reason. I do not agree that islands should be exempted from bans on these toxic chemicals.

I do not believe the mice on Farallons pose any significant threat to wildlife having lived there for over 150 years. They are simply part of the web of life, and the food chain. There is no threat to Ashy storm petrels, nor any ecological emergency that justifies this drastic, deadly assault on innocent mice and other animals likely to be poisoned too.

Please oppose this poison drop from your position within the National Resources Agency. Thank you for your consideration of the very real threat to a precious and vulnerable marine ecosystem — from human toxins, not mice gone wild.

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