In this 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo. Grizzly bears are slowly expanding in the northern Rocky Mountains but scientists say they need continued protections and have concluded no other areas of the country would be suitable for the fearsome animals. The Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday, March 31, 2021, released its first assessment in almost a decade on the status of grizzly bears in the contiguous U.S. (Joe Lieb/USFWS via AP)
BILLINGS, Mont. Grizzly bears are slowly expanding the turf where they roam in parts of the northern Rocky Mountains but need continued protections, according to government scientists who concluded that no other areas of the country would be suitable for reintroducing the fearsome predators.
Scientists: Grizzlies expand turf but still need protection
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A summary of those incident reports shows Seresto collars were named in more than 75,000 incidents, including 1,698 reported pet deaths. The reports were filed between 2012 and June 2020.
“When you re seeing numbers this high, that s not an anecdote. That’s not a weird coincidence,” said Nathan Donley, senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, an activist environmental group that obtained the data through a federal records request.
Reports of harm associated with the collars range from relatively minor effects, such as animals suffering itchiness and skin irritation, to seizures, convulsions and pet deaths, Donley said.