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Lead Ammo Opponents Reload Call to Hunters

22.05.12

     (CN) - Activists have renewed their campaign against lead bullets, which cause lead poisoning in scavenger birds like the endangered California condor, despite warnings that confrontation may spook hunters away from voluntarily giving up lead.
     The Center for Biological Diversity and other opponents of lead-based bullets want the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
     Though the EPA denied a petition to enact such regulation last year, and a Washington federal judge dismissed the ensuing lawsuit, more than 100 groups and scientists filed a new petition in March.
     "The widespread poisoning of many species of wildlife requires a response from the EPA to regulate lead ammunition," the filing states. "This petition presents strong evidence that lead shot and bullets pose an unreasonable risk


Source: Courthouse News Service

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in Malta, with poachers specifically targeting raptors (birds of prey) and Herons as well as rare migratory birds. This persecution reaches its ...

Scots landowners call for licence to kill birds of prey ...

by tygertyger

On the main topic, though, I don't think I could ever deliberately shoot a bird of prey. I feel bound to point out that, while I have never been on a shoot (I don't have that kind of money) I am not in any way morally oppossed to the shooting of game birds....

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Birds of prey in Europe
263 pages 		Birds of prey in Europe

Creator: Maarten Bijleveld | Nature - 1974
He puts the annual loss by shooting at about 30000 raptors, which agrees with the game statistics for 1965 indicating 1500 'hawks', 15000 'sparrow hawks', and 20000 'buzzards' or a total of 36500 birds of prey (Anon., 1966a). Hungary.
Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey
429 pages 		Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey

Creator: Stephen Stuebner | Nature - 2002-03-01
By 1980, The Raptor Center was treating about 350 birds a year, and it continued to grow. ... Morley's tireless efforts to prevent people from shooting birds of prey and to care for injured birds of prey planted many seeds in the ...
Publisher: Caxton Pr
Birds of prey of the world
496 pages 		Birds of prey of the world

Creator: Mary Louise Grossman, John N. Hamlet | Nature - 1988-12-12
Fortunately, not all of man's problems with the birds of prey are as complicated as the situation in West Texas. ... his own species with "No Hunting" signs, but from all the predatory birds and mammals which instinctively hunt them.
Publisher: Crescent Books
Birds of prey
240 pages 		Birds of prey

Creator: Ian Newton, Tony Pyrzakowski, Penny Olsen | Nature - 1990-09
As a result rabbits became a major food item for Wedge-tailed Eagles, replacing some native mammalian prey ... Methods of killing eagles varied from a tethered white rooster surrounded by leg traps to shooting birds from light aircraft.
Field & Stream
126 pages 		Field & Stream

1992-04
In the United States there are only about 2500 people licensed to hunt with hawks and falcons. The thirty-year-old North American ... Hawaii, and West Virginia permit license holders to hunt with birds of prey under state regulations.

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Groups unite for increased fines for poaching
The Register-Guard - May 31, 2011
They have united behind a bill in the Oregon Legislature to impose mandatory minimum fines for poachers, particularly those that illegally kill birds of prey and sturgeon, and go way over bag limits on fish and game. “Poachers, even when they did get

Groups unite for increased fines for Ore. poaching
Beaumont Enterprise - May 22, 1412
They have united behind a bill in the Oregon Legislature to impose mandatory minimum fines for poachers, particularly those that illegally kill birds of prey and sturgeon, and go way over bag limits on fish and game. "Poachers, even when they did get