Since 2023, our team of Woburn residents, city officials, and conservation commissioners have been reducing the use of Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticide (SGAR) products across the city. Actions such as community outreach, education, neighborhood rat walks, library events for safe rodent control, implementing IPM in orders of conditions on permits, and rodent mitigation pilot studies are on-going. Our work and partnership with Cape Ann Wildlife has resulted in the Necropsy and Anticoagulant Screening case document which includes 5 birds of prey cases from Woburn. It has led to the protocols used for the EwA Rat Poison Brigade in partnership with Earthwise Aware. Much work remains to be done which includes passage of a city ordinance to prohibit the use of SGAR products on municipal property. Please contact us for more information and to join our team today. 

  The Animal Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School has petitioned the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (MDAR) and the Department of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the immediate suspension of the registrations of anticoagulant rodenticide products that are killing the natural rodent consuming species such as eagles, owls, hawks, fox, and coyote, as well as domestic pets and people throughout the Commonwealth. Click the link below for the full story.   

Learn more about IPM and the principles of exclusion, waste management, safe rodent control, and monitoring. Mass Audubon's Rescue Raptors campaign has a prepared a flyer that will help guide you through the process. Start protecting wildlife, pets, people and the environment today.

Mass Audubon IPM Flyer 

Say NO to Rat and Mouse Poison Flyer

An Open Letter from Banner Pest Control