US President Donald Trump's administration has re-authorized the use of controversial poison traps known as
US President Donald Trump’s administration has re-authorized the use of controversial poison traps known as “cyanide bombs” to kill wild foxes, coyotes and feral dogs despite overwhelming opposition from conservation groups.
The devices, known as M-44s, which are implanted in the ground and resemble lawn sprinklers, use a spring-loaded ejector to release sodium cyanide when an animal tugs on its baited capsule holder. “They’re incredibly dangerous to people, their pets and endangered wildlife, they’re just too risky to be used,” Collette Adkins, carnivore conservation director for the Center for Biological Diversity, told AFP on Thursday.
According to government data, M-44s killed 6,579 animals in 2018, including more than 200 “nontarget” animals including opossums raccoons, skunks and a bear.
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