Welcome To
SAVE WATERTOWN WILDLIFE
OUR MISSION:
Protect wildlife, pets, humans, and the environment by reducing the use of anticoagulant rodenticides –
rat poisons that work by preventing blood from clotting
Anticoagulant rodenticides, or ARs, are chemicals that kill rodents by preventing their blood from clotting. ARs build up inside the rodents, which often take about a week and a half to die. When predators, like bald eagles, red tailed hawks, and foxes, eat the poisoned rodents, the ARs then build up in their bodies. Eventually these poisons make the eagles, hawks, and foxes also bleed to death, or they become very weak and die from other diseases.
Watertown, MA, does not use ARs on its municipal properties. It does use a vitamin D overdose in black bait boxes.
What you can do
- Practice integrated pest management in your home or business – print our guide here!
- Tell your pest control company that you do not want to use SGARs – click here for a list of companies
- Work with local businesses and organizations to get SGARs off their properties
- Report bait boxes to the EwA Rat Poison Brigade map
- Donate to wildlife rescue centers, like Cape Ann Wildlife
Events
Bi-monthly meeting
We meet on the fourth Thursday of every other month at noon on Google Meet. Our next meeting is Thursday, 23 July. Email savewatertownwildlife@gmail.com for meeting info.
Save Watertown Wildlife is a group of Watertown residents committed to helping wildlife. Our current focus is on reducing the use of rat poisons that harm pets, raptors and other wildlife, and even humans.
Projects
We’re still working on this part!
Info
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Recent posts….
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Rodent control – a guide
Having a rodent problem is a harrowing situation for most. Fortunately, safe, effective means of removing and excluding rodents are readily available. And now, all those methods are clearly laid out in one place, thanks to a fellow Rescue Raptors (Mass Audubon) member! We handed out this rodent control guide frequently at EcoFest on Saturday…
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Update on the House bill to restrict SGAR usage
Heather Packard, from Mass Audubon, provided the following update on the status of the House bill to restrict anticoagulant rodenticide (AR) usage. TL;DR: The amendment to the House budget that would have restricted the use of ARs was not adopted. Now our focus is on incorporating the statewide ban on ARs in the House version…
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Update on the state bill to restrict SGAR usage
I’m so happy to say that the Massachusetts House of Representatives’ version of the bill to restrict second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide (SGAR) usage has been reported favorably out of committee. This is an important step in the process for this bill, one that was achieved because of your support! Thank you!! What’s next? The House version…