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Jun 19 2008

Seamus

BBC lion poisoning story: opening of the FMC persecution season.

Posted at 2:53 am under General

Yesterday a story was published on the BBC website that draws attention to the poisoning of wildlife in Kenya. It used an image from the recent poisonings in the Mara., published by Asuka.

The anti wildlife-poisoning movement in Kenya seems to be gaining some momentum. There have been a few references to it in the international media recently. And the wildlifedirect stop poisoning blog is going well.

In case I have new readers to this blog, you can look at the Lion Guardian site for a description of a lion poisoning incident in southern maasailand in January this year. As much as the post received mixed reviews from local conservationists, I think it helped to draw attention to the poisoning problem in east africa generally. And pesticide control products board of kenya will hopefully not be able to ignore the noise thats being raised from all quarters.

Do have a look at the BBC story. Its quite a good, balanced view. In particular it mentions the FMC corporation as a dominant producer of furudan, one of the most widely used poisons. Here is the FMC website. I have a few questions for them. I was thinking I might write them an email or two, or three, or three thousand.


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5 Responses to “BBC lion poisoning story: opening of the FMC persecution season.”

  1. Wimon 19 Jun 2008 at 4:08 am 1

    The story was also broadcast as an extended feature on Radio 4 and in BBC TV news bulletins thoughout the day.

  2. Paulaon 19 Jun 2008 at 4:14 am 2

    Thanks Seamus. The Kenyan ministers are finally waking up and are getting annoyed with us! We are being accused of damaging tourism - nice reaction - no penalty for killing lions hey?

    Here are the BBC links to radio and TV stories
    These are the two links - the top one’s tv - the bottom radio
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7460524.stm

    Paula

  3. Paulaon 19 Jun 2008 at 4:16 am 3

    and here http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7460000/7460571.stm

  4. sheryl, washington dcon 19 Jun 2008 at 5:49 am 4

    Thanks for the link to the FMC Web site, Seamus. I’ll be sending them a few e-mail messages, too.

    s.

  5. Seamuson 19 Jun 2008 at 1:29 pm 5

    Thanks Sheryl. If you get an “official” response I can post it here, or more likely, get Paula to put it onto the wildlifedirect front page. This is an issue that affects all the wildlifedirect blogs, and I think its time that the chain of suppliers of these lethal products be held accountable.

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