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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Marijuana Farm Pesticides Are Killing Fishers, a Rare Forest Mammal 🌿Marijuana Farm Pesticides Are Killing Fishers, a Rare Forest Mammal
Fishers, a rare forest mammal in the weasel family, are being poisoned by illegal marijuana farms in California. And the situation appears to be getting worse.
According to a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, 10 percent of dead fishers examined were killed by poisons, says study co-author Mourad Gabriel, a scientist with the Integral Ecology Research Center. The rate of annual poisoning deaths has more than doubled since 2012, when Gabriel and co-authors first showed in a study that the animals were being poisoned by pesticides left at marijuana grow sites.
Illegal marijuana farms and plots on public lands are a huge problem in California. In 2012 alone, authorities found and destroyed nearly 870,000 illegal marijuana plants on public and tribal lands, and these grow sites are far from benign; 315,000 feet of plastic hose, 19,000 pounds of fertilizer and 180,000 pounds of trash were taken out of these...
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