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Illegal marijuana growers in California are not only breaking drugs laws, they are also killing animals protected under the California Endangered Species Act. Pacific fishers, small carnivores that look like a cross between a weasel and a teddy bear, are inadvertently being poisoned by contraband farmers who pepper their crop fields with rodenticides.
Fisher populations have been declining precipitously for the last century, and today the animals occupy just 20 percent of their historic range. Researchers estimate that the southern Sierra Nevada fisher population, for example, includes just 300 individuals and fewer than 120 breeding females.
While the biggest threat to the species’ survival is development, marijuana farms exacerbate this already precarious situation. These farms are known to sprinkle poison scented with bacon or peanut butter flavoring to keep pests away from their crops.
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