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Keynote Presentation: Allen Fish
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 • 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Allen Fish, Director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO) and Co-Founder of Raptors are the Solution (RATS), will trace the history of raptor population studies, including the impact of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and the current impact of anticoagulant rodenticides on the health of raptors. The US EPA recently banned second-generation rodenticides because they caused “unreasonable risks to the environment” by not only killing rodents, but also killing the wildlife and pets that feed on poisoned rodents. Allen will discuss how RATS was founded as an offshoot of the GGRO’s citizen science-based methods, as well as the progress that RATS has made toward removing these rodenticides from store shelves.

Speakers

Allen Fish, Director/Co-Founder, Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO) and Raptors Are The Solution (RATS)

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Allen Fish, Director of the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (GGRO) and Co-Founder of Raptors are the Solution (RATS), will trace the history of raptor population studies, including the impact of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and the current impact of anticoagulant rodenticides on the health of raptors. The US EPA recently banned second-generation rodenticides because they caused “unreasonable risks to the environment” by not only killing rodents, but also killing the wildlife and pets that feed on poisoned rodents. Allen will discuss how RATS was founded as an offshoot of the GGRO’s citizen science-based methods, as well as the progress that RATS has made toward removing these rodenticides from store shelves.

Presentations/Handouts

Keynote Presentation: Raptors, Rats, and Rodenticides – Is this DDT all over again?

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