<story><title>Wildlife Services, a US agency planting &apos;cyanide bombs&apos; to kill predators</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/26/cyanide-bombs-wildfire-services-idaho</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Exmoor</author><text>A few years ago I read Coyote America, by Dan Flores. A large portion of this book is dedicated to Wildlife Services efforts to cull the Coyote. They&amp;#x27;ve been fantastically unsuccessful in this effort, most likely due to behavioral quirk of the species. Coyotes can identify specific individuals by voice, and if one of those voices disappears from the nightly call it causes the females to enter estrus and breed. So if you kill a Coyote multiple more Coyotes literally spring up in their place.</text></comment>
<story><title>Wildlife Services, a US agency planting &apos;cyanide bombs&apos; to kill predators</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/26/cyanide-bombs-wildfire-services-idaho</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hedora</author><text>They shouldn’t be allowed to place them without notifying people beforehand, preferably by getting those people’s signatures.&lt;p&gt;According to the article, they’re nowhere near that level of notification.  They certainly didn’t notify the local emergency response personnel, which is just negligent.&lt;p&gt;These things have the same failure mode as landmines:  If forgotten, they might kill some random person years later, and at that point, locating and removing them costs orders of magnitude more than placing them.&lt;p&gt;At the very least, there needs to be a public map of where these things are, and an 5-10’ ring of signs at eye level around each one.&lt;p&gt;The tiny sign they place at ground level on top of the trap could easily be lost or overlooked, and it won’t inform people with pets to stay out of the area until it’s too late.</text></comment>