Raptors Are The Solution, a project of Earth Island Institute, is dedicated to educating the public about the dangers to birds of prey and other wildlife from anticoagulant rodenticides and to sharing the latest science about this problem. We greatly appreciate the attention the Raptor Research Foundation and its journal have devoted to the issue of secondary poisoning in raptors. However, a recent Conservation Letter by Gomez et al. (2022) published in the Journal of Raptor Research contained a confusing and incorrect statement about “recent changes to legislation in California.” The recent legislation, Assembly Bill 1788—the California Ecosystems Protection Act (https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1788)—introduced by Assembly member Richard Bloom, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, and co-sponsored by Raptors Are The Solution, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, went into effect January 2021. It places a moratorium on the use of second generation anticoagulants while the...

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