Dog’s Death Spotlights Use of Cyanide ‘Bombs’ to Kill Predators

Dog’s Death Spotlights Use of Cyanide ‘Bombs’ to Kill Predators

Posted by on Apr 22, 2017 @ 12:20 pm in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: April 21, 2017

Sodium cyanide is considered by the Department of Homeland Security to be a potential weapon for terrorists. It’s a key ingredient in the M-44s, or “cyanide bombs,” used by Wildlife Services, an obscure agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to kill wildlife predators on public and private lands in the West. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,...

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