But the poison remains in the rodents’ bodies ... These products are used exclusively in residential and urban areas and can kill a rat or mouse after just one night’s feeding.

The island nation of New Zealand is thinking even bigger. It plans to kill all the rats in the country—with traps and poison baits spread over some 100,000 square miles—to try to save its rare ...

“Rat poison was intended to control pests but instead has led to ... The second generation of this class of rodenticides, on the other hand, is more potent: It takes a single dose to kill an animal.

In one county in England, these "super rats ... poison-resistant. That generation breeds another more-resistant generation; eventually, the pesticide may be rendered ineffective or even kill ...

Despite the existing moratorium, which targets the first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone and second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, toxic rat poison that’s still on the market ...

The Poison-Free Wildlife Act, or Assembly Bill 2552, offers the strongest protections in the country against these toxic rat poisons, which unintentionally harm and kill wildlife. “This important ...