Ottawa urged to ban strychnine poison after dogs, grizzlies, eagles killed
is the only province in Canada still to use strychnine to kill animals, including wolves and coyotes, and it has asked Ottawa, which regulates the poison’s use, for permission to continue using it.
“Animals that are consuming the poison and dying are becoming poisoned bait themselves and that propels it through the food chain,” said Hannah Barron, a conservationist with Wolf Awareness, one of the groups in the coalition. Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency re-evaluated use of the poisons last year and decided to allow Alberta to continue to use strychnine to kill predators threatening the endangered caribou population and farmers’ livestock – if the province takes steps to reduce the risk of exposing people and non-target animals to the poison.
“I’m not opposed to humane deaths, but strychnine is a long, cruel death. If they ingest it, they start to convulse, their legs will flail and they go into rigidity. They will have muscle contractions and they can’t breathe,” he said. “If this was used in a human arena, it would be banned under the Geneva Conventions.”
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