Cyanide is poisonous to essentially all animal species. Cyanide can be placed in baits including water bait. Sodium and potassium cyanide and other forms of cyanide can be used. Breaching the impoundment can release tons of cyanide into streams, rivers, and lakes. Impoundments of toxic water containing cyanide could be a target of terrorism.
Cyanide is used in the extraction of gold and silver ores. The cyanide used in the process is recycled, but some cyanide escapes into the tailing pond. Bats and other animals drinking from these tailing ponds have been poisoned. There is a historical record of a dam holding a tailing pond being breached by a weather event, and subsequently releasing tons of cyanide into river systems causing an ecological disaster
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