The decision on whether California will allow the dropping of 1.5 tons of rat poison on islands near San Francisco has been postponed after debate about the effort to kill mice to save a bird pitted ...

About 27 miles west of San Francisco, the Farallon Islands host a plethora of wildlife, including some of the largest seabird populations, five kinds of marine mammals and rare species like the ...

Determined to eradicate mice and protect a rare seabird on the South Farallon Islands, a federal wildlife agency is planning to drop poison pellets from a helicopter all over the rocky islands 30 ...

On a clear day, you can stand on Ocean Beach and see the jagged outline of San Francisco’s westernmost point peeking out over the horizon. There hadn’t been clear days in quite some time as California ...

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A proposal to eradicate tens of thousands of mice from the Farallon Islands could involve dropping a payload of poison pellets, all in the name of preserving a fragile seabird population. Initial ...

The wild and remote Farallon Islands off the Marin coast offer daily proof of nature’s ebbs and flows. The changes, unseen by most, are dramatic. California sea lions have moved here from southern ...

For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...

New research from Point Blue Conservation Science shows the significant negative impact that invasive, non-native house mice on the Farallon Islands are having to the threatened ashy storm-petrel.

The South Farallon Islands has a big rodent problem. It has recently become the most rodent-dense island in the world. And the U.S. Government had 49 possible solutions. Deadly solutions. Every acre ...