Four animals have died near Lucky Lake and a conservation officer believes it was caused by deliberate poisoning.

A bald eagle and three coyotes were all found dead in the same quarter section of land and were reported to Outlook conservation officers on May 22.

Kevin Harrison, a conservation officer with the ministry of environment, said results of their investigation point to it being intentionally poisoning.

"The officer did an investigation and collected samples from the eagle and coyotes," he said. "He sent those samples to a laboratory to get tested. It was determined that level of pesticide in all of these animals was too high to have naturally occurred, so it was intentionally poisoned."

Harrison was unsure of the exact pesticide that killed the animals roughly 19 kilometres south of Lucky Lake, but with these types of cases, he said they can have a trickle-down effect.

"What's also scary is that once these animals are highly toxic and they've got poison in them, that becomes second-hand poisoning too," he said. "Once an animal gets fed on that got the poison and died, another animal feeds on that animal that poisoned, that animal has now become infected and it's going to die."

The next step in the case has the ministry of environment and Sasktip turning to the public asking for help.

"If they know anybody in the area that may have done this or is known to do this in the past," Harrison said. "Any information that we can get from the public is going to be beneficial in this case."

In cases of intentional animal poisoning, charges can be laid with fines reaching over $2,000.