Rodent Control Without Poisoning Children, Pets and Wildlife is the topic of the Santa Barbara Audubon Society’s (SBAS) free program, 7:30 p.m. March 25, in Farrand Auditorium at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The talk will be presented by Kian and Joel Schulman, who founded Poison Free Malibu in 2013 to work to stop the poisoning of wildlife.
Rodenticides are abundant throughout the ecosystem from residential and commercial usage, poisoning wildlife predator species including owls, hawks, foxes, bobcats, coyotes and mountain lions at 80 percent-90 percent exposure rates.
The Schulmans will discuss how such deaths are unnecessary and will describe alternative rodent-control methods. Recent efforts to protect wildlife at the city, county and state levels will be presented.
The Schulmans’ effort that started in Malibu spread to nearby cities and counties, then statewide as a part of a coalition to pass state legislation restricting rat poisons.