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Antidote program

The use of poison in the natural environment is legally prohibited at community (EU), state (Spain) and autonomous (CCAA) level.
The illegal use of poisons has become, together with the change of land use, the unsustainable use of natural resources and habitat fragmentation, one of the main threats to the conservation and survival of many wild species.
However, it was not until 1997 that there was an organized reaction from conservationist sectors to confront the problem and the Antidote Program was created, a joint initiative of NGOs (FCQ, Ecologists in Action, SEO/BirdLife, FAPAS, WWF/Spain, SECEM, and GREFA) to fight against the illegal use of poisons against wildlife.
The main actions of the Antidote Program are:

  • Participate in the elaboration and development of National and Regional Strategies to Combat the Use of Poisons.
  • Support SEPRONA and Environmental Agents in the fight against poison.
  • Report cases through both criminal and administrative channels.
  • Conduct awareness campaigns for the general population and the groups most directly involved in the use of poisons.
  • Participate and use the SOS Poison Hotline for urgent alerts: 900 71 31 82.
  • Promote greater involvement of local, regional, national and European institutions in the fight against poison.
  • Develop pilot projects to eradicate poison from our fields.

The FCQ develops particularly relevant actions in the fight against poison in the Autonomous Communities of Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria and Castilla y León.
Some of its actions have been the following:

  • Appearing in 1999 as private prosecution in the trial of Piraces (Huesca) in 1999 and obtaining the second criminal sentence for this type of crime in Spain.
  • Request to legislate the use of poisons in the Aragon Hunting Law in 2000.
  • Awareness campaign against the illegal use of poisons in Aragon in 2000.
  • Study on the use of toxics in agricultural cooperatives in the Pyrenees in 2004.
  • Request to the Government of Aragon to approve an action plan against the use of poison in Aragon (approved in 2007).
  • Complaint in the courts of the cases of bearded vulture mortality (Huesca and Lérida).
  • Studies of the effects of poisons in the Iberian System, Pyrenees and Picos de Europa.
  • Training courses for forestry agents, Civil Guard and Administration technicians and press, radio and TV coverage.
  • FCQ Poison Detection Canine Unit in Asturias (funded by the LIFE + Bearded Vulture Network 2013-2018).