{"id":23866,"date":"2018-12-05T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=23866"},"modified":"2018-12-04T19:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T23:26:19","slug":"epa-denies-petition-to-stop-cyanide-use-that-is-killing-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2018\/12\/epa-denies-petition-to-stop-cyanide-use-that-is-killing-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Denies Petition to Stop Cyanide Use that Is Killing Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, December 5, 2018)\u00a0 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition<\/a> seeking to ban M-44s \u2014 cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs that may prey on livestock. Submitted to the EPA in August 2017 by the Center for Biological Diversity,<\/a> WildEarth Guardians,<\/a> the Humane Society of the U.S.,<\/a> Natural Resources Defense Council,<\/a> Predator Defense,<\/a> the Sierra Club,<\/a> and a number of other conservation, wildlife, and environmental organizations, the petition sought cancellation of the registration of cyanide capsules used in M-44s and a functional ban<\/a> on their use in the \u201clower 48\u201d states because of their danger to non-target wildlife, domestic pets, and people. In its letter of denial, EPA noted<\/a> that it \u201cis currently reviewing these products using the Registration Review process and sees no reason, and the Petition provides none, to start a parallel process using Special Review proceedings to look at the same issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the word \u201cpesticide\u201d generally conjures thoughts of a chemical meant to kill insect \u201cpests,\u201d whether sprayed on crops, coated onto seeds, or in the kit bag of an \u201cexterminator\u201d whose business it is to rout out some infestation in a home or building, these two compounds \u2014 sodium cyanide (used in M-44s) and the so-called \u201ccompound 1080,\u201d another chemical employed on wildlife \u2014 qualify for the term. They are chemical approaches to \u201ccontrolling\u201d organisms considered by some to be \u201cpests\u201d \u2014 those whose presence and activity are deemed inconvenient or destructive to some economic interests.<\/p>\n

For M-44s and compound 1080, those target organisms are coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs, which are regarded by ranchers as threats because they sometimes prey on livestock. These chemicals represent public safety and health risks, at the very least. The sodium cyanide capsules used in m-44s<\/a> are triggered to burst when touched, and will spray the poison up to five feet from the device \u2014 into the mouths of animals that are attracted to the devices by odoriferous bait, and then may be killed or injured by the cyanide. The chemical is produced from dangerous hydrogen cyanide gas, and has both acute and long-term effects<\/a>. Acute impacts of low-dose ingestion or inhalation include nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, headache, and dizziness; larger-volume exposure via any route can cause loss of consciousness, injury to lungs, hypotension, bradycardia, convulsions, and respiratory failure that can lead to death. Longer-term health effects in survivors of poisoning may include cardiac and neurological damage.<\/p>\n

Compound 1080 is used legally in the U.S.<\/a> only in \u201clivestock protection collars,\u201d which are worn on domestic animals\u2019 necks. The toxic chemical\u00a0is ingested if a predator, such as a coyote, pierces the collar while attempting to take down the animal. The use of these collars is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service\u2019s Wildlife Services program<\/a>, which allows them in Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Compound 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate or sodium monofluoroacetate) is a water-soluble, odorless, colorless, tasteless, and lethally toxic poison with no antidote; a single teaspoon could kill as many as 100 adult humans. It causes basic cellular process to fail, leading to gross organ failure and a very painful death.<\/p>\n

Compound 1080 has a 70-year history in the U.S.:<\/a> it was introduced in the late 1940s for rodent and coyote control, but was banned by President Nixon in 1972 because of its unintended lethality for grizzly bears, eagles, and hawks. In 1985, the Reagan administration EPA overturned the ban and approved the use of poisoned collars on sheep and goats. The Tull Chemical Company in Oxford, Alabama is the only legal producer of the compound in the U.S.; most of its product is exported to New Zealand, where it is used to control populations of opossums, rats, stoats, deer, and rabbits, which there are invasive species.<\/p>\n

Also in 2017, a group of advocate organizations acted on compound 1080, petitioning EPA<\/a> to issue \u201ca Notice of Intent to Cancel the registration of sodium fluoroacetate (commonly known as \u2018Compound 1080\u2019 or sodium monofluoroacetate), a toxicant registered for use in \u2018livestock protection collars.\u2019\u201d The petition noted that \u201cCancellation of a pesticide\u2019s registration is warranted where the \u2018pesticide or its labeling or other material required to be submitted does not comply with the provisions of [FIFRA Subchapter II] or, when used in accordance with widespread and commonly recognized practice, generally causes unreasonable adverse effects on the environment.\u2019 Here, the registration must be suspended because EPA has not made the necessary finding, after public notice and comment, that coyotes are \u2018pests,\u2019 and as such, use of Compound 1080 to kill coyotes (Canis latrans<\/em>) does not comply with the provisions of FIFRA, Subchapter II.3.\u201d Co-petitioners included the Animal Welfare Institute, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Center for Biological Diversity, Project Coyote,<\/a> and Predator Defense. There has not yet been a publicly available response to this petition.<\/p>\n

Both of these petition efforts followed by a decade the submission of an earlier request to the EPA by Beyond Pesticides,<\/a> Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER),<\/a> Forest Guardians,<\/a> Predator Defense, Western Wildlife Conservancy<\/a>, the Sierra Club, and several other animal welfare groups, asking that the agency issue a Notice of Intent to Cancel the registration of both M-44 sodium cyanide capsules and compound 1080.<\/p>\n

The 2017 petition on M-44s<\/a>, now denied by the EPA, followed events in that same year in which the devices temporarily blinded a child and killed three pet dogs in two different incidents (in Idaho<\/a> and Wyoming<\/a>). A wolf was also accidentally kille<\/a>d by an M-44 in Oregon in 2017. Shortly after that spate of incidents, Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon re-introduced<\/a> legislation \u2014 The Chemical Poisons Reduction Act of 2017<\/a> \u2014 on which Predator Defense has been working for years, to ban the uses of compound 1080 and M-44s with cyanide capsules in predator control efforts.<\/p>\n

The number of animals killed by compound 1080 is unclear. Wildlife Services set it at 26 for 2010, but Predator Defense claims<\/a> that number is likely \u201cgrossly underestimated, and that Wildlife Services actively covers up non-target kills, especially the deaths of pets and endangered species.\u201d The organization also says<\/a> that M-44s cause 10,000\u201315,000 animal deaths annually, with an unknown number of those being domestic pet dogs. According to Wildlife Services,<\/a> M-44s killed 13,232 animals in 2017; most were coyotes and foxes, but more than 200 were nontarget animals (a wolf, pet dogs, opossums, raccoons, ravens, and skunks). According to\u00a0the\u00a0Sacramento Bee<\/a>, 18 Wildlife Services employees (and several other people) were exposed to cyanide by M-44s from 1987 through 2012, and during the 2000\u20132012 period, the devices killed more than 1,100 dogs. National Geographic further reports<\/a><\/em> that of 76,963 coyotes killed in 2016 for livestock protection, 12,511 were felled with M-44s, and that Wildlife Services spends more than $120 million a year killing animals deemed \u201cnuisances\u201d to humans.<\/p>\n

On Wildlife Services accounting, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) notes,<\/a> \u201cUnfortunately these numbers are likely a significant undercount of the true death toll, as Wildlife Services is notorious for poor data collection and an entrenched \u2018shoot, shovel, shut up\u2019 mentality.\u201d Advocates against these chemical killers of wildlife and domestic animals (never the mind collateral injury to humans) are adamant in their critique. CBD attorney and biologist Collette Adkins said<\/a> of M-44s, \u201cCyanide traps are indiscriminate killers that just can\u2019t be used safely. We\u2019ll keep fighting for a permanent nationwide ban, which is the only way to protect people, pets and imperiled wildlife from the EPA\u2019s poison.\u201d Bethany Cotton, wildlife program director for WildEarth Guardians, added,<\/a> \u201cThe government continues to prioritize the minority anti-wildlife ranching industry over making public lands safe for people, imperiled wildlife and companion animals. These dangerous, indiscriminate devices have absolutely no place on public lands, especially given no evidence exists that they actually reduce conflict [between wildlife and livestock].\u201d<\/p>\n

Predators are critical components of ecosystems, impacting the food web and regulating the effects other animals have on ecosystems \u2014 the very ecosystems that provide massive environmental and other benefits to humans. Read more about Beyond Pesticides work on issues that impact wildlife<\/a>, and consider advocating with U.S. Representatives and Senators<\/a> for legislation banning M-44s and compound 1080, such as H.R. 1817<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources: https:\/\/www.eastidahonews.com\/2018\/11\/epa-denies-petition-to-ban-m-44-cyanide-devices<\/a> and https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/news\/press_releases\/2018\/cyanide-bombs-11-26-2018.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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