Local context and environment as risk factors for acute poisoning in animals in northwest Italy

Blasio, Alessia Di; Bertolini, Silvia; Gili, Marilena; Avolio, Rosa; Leogrande, M.; Ostorero, Federica; Ru, Giuseppe; Dondo, Alessandro; Zoppi, Simona

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136016

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“…Intentional poisoning is a critical global wildlife conservation problem that may affect individuals, populations, and even entire communities [1][2][3][4][5]. Consequently, many countries have passed strict legislation with severe penalties and invested considerable resources to reduce wildlife poisoning [1,3,[6][7][8].…”

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confidence: 99%

Biases in the Detection of Intentionally Poisoned Animals: Public Health and Conservation Implications from a Field Experiment

Gil‐Sánchez

Aguilera-Alcalá

Moleón

et al. 2021

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Intentional poisoning is a global wildlife problem and an overlooked risk factor for public health. Managing poisoning requires unbiased and high-quality data through wildlife monitoring protocols, which are largely lacking. We herein evaluated the biases associated with current monitoring programmes of wildlife poisoning in Spain. We compared the national poisoning database for the 1990–2015 period with information obtained from a field experiment during which we used camera-traps to detect the species that consumed non-poisoned baits. Our findings suggest that the detection rate of poisoned animals is species-dependent: Several animal groups (e.g., domestic mammalian carnivores and vultures) tended to be over-represented in the poisoning national database, while others (e.g., corvids and small mammals) were underrepresented. As revealed by the GLMM analyses, the probability of a given species being overrepresented was higher for heaviest, aerial, and cryptic species. In conclusion, we found that monitoring poisoned fauna based on heterogeneous sources may produce important biases in detection rates; thus, such information should be used with caution by managers and policy-makers. Our findings may guide to future search efforts aimed to reach a more comprehensive understanding of the intentional wildlife poisoning problem.

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Biases in the Detection of Intentionally Poisoned Animals: Public Health and Conservation Implications from a Field Experiment

Gil‐Sánchez

Aguilera-Alcalá

Moleón

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…In our competent territory pyrethroids (i.e., permethrin and cypermethrin) were found in baits packaged with only pyrethroids and/or its synergist (piperonyl butoxide); in some cases, the synergist was detected alone in baits or mixed with inert harmful materials (i.e. blades) ( Di Blasio et al., 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 82%

“…In particular, the illegal use of endosulfan was already reported in Italy ( Chiari et al., 2017 ; De Roma et al., 2017 ; Di Blasio et al., 2020 ), probably linked to some residual rural stock after the ban of the sale and the use of this substance respectively in 2012 and 2013, ( Di Blasio et al., 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When different visible and suspicious constituent parts were observed in baits (e.g., blue, red or violet grains), the components were analysed separately. QuEChERS approach allowed speeding up the processing t of the samples, in fact, that technique needed only one-step extraction followed by a clean-up step with solid-phase dispersion extraction (dSPE), as reported in a previous work by Di Blasio et al. (2020) .…”

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“…This instrumental technique allowed to detect anticoagulants, alpha-chloralose, carbamates, strychnine, chlorpyriphos methyl, coumaphos, methamidophos, mevinphos, parathion methyl. Another aliquot of extract was injected in a gas-chromatograph Agilent 6090 N coupled with a single quadrupole mass spectrometer Agilent 5975 system (Agilent Technologies, St. Clara, CA, USA), operating in full scan mode with EI ionization, to better detect the more volatile compounds: alpha- endosulfan, beta-endosulfan, endosulfan-sulfate, lindane, metaldehyde, piperonyl butoxide, ethylene glycol, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, permethrin I and II ( Di Blasio et al., 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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