Sentences with phrase «lead ammunition»

The findings have prompted some experts to recommend bans on lead ammunition.

It also sparked a flurry of new research that raises questions about the safety of eating wild game, as well as a renewed debate about eliminating lead ammunition.

This is not the first time the federal government has considered restrictions on lead ammunition.

The use of lead ammunition for waterfowl hunting is already banned nationwide.

«I have been consuming game for many years, and I am not aware of any person who suffers health - related issues as a result of consuming game shot with lead ammunition; neither is any shooting body with which I have spoken.»

The key to solving the problem, Schuler says, is teaching hunters not to use lead ammunition for game.

In support of its submission, BASC cited Defra's decision last year not to ban lead ammunition as the available evidence had shown no impact at a population level.

While this may sound like bad news, it means little stands in the way of condor recovery if hunters shift away from using lead ammunition in the region.

BASC has cautioned against poorly - targeted regulations in its response to a European - wide public consultation on the use of lead ammunition over wetlands.

One of the environmental groups» lead lawyers, Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity, insisted advocacy for controlling lead ammunition will continue.

Rangers also would have to stop using lead ammunition when culling herds or killing wounded or sick animals.

Birds will never survive on their own as long as lead ammunition continues to poison them, according to new study

HF 844, which was signed by Governor Dayton on May 30, prohibits the MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR) from adopting rules that restrict the use of lead ammunition until July 2019.

The birds can be poisoned by eating the remains of animals shot with lead ammunition.

BASC's official submission to the consultation seeks written assurance that NE will withdraw a clause which stipulates the use of lead ammunition over any part of the site would require NE consent.

Earlier this year, the National Park Service announced a controversial plan to ban lead ammunition and fishing tackle in the parks, which Acting Director Dan Wenk said «will benefit humans, wildlife, and ecosystems inside and outside park boundaries.»

A statewide ban on lead ammunition in California takes effect in 2019, and West and his colleagues are optimistic that it may lower lead exposure to scavengers if it includes outreach programs to help the state's hunting community through the transition.

Now conservationists are insisting on a total ban on lead ammunition use in Britain.

We forged new and strengthened existing relationships with key international partners on a range of topics including sarcocystis, white fronted geese, pochard and lead ammunition.»

Storm clouds are gathering for another big battle in countryside politics, as conservationists prepare to take on shooting sports over the use of lead ammunition.

A non-binding resolution on lead ammunition, adopted by an international wildlife conference, has been described as a blunt, ineffective and unnecessary instrument by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

BASC Chairman Alan Jarrett has criticised the publication of a letter on the website of the Lead Ammunition Group.

BASC has welcomed the government's decision not to ban the use of lead ammunition following consideration of the report by the Lead Ammunition Group (LAG).

«Unfortunately, the lead ammunition debate has been hijacked by campaigners who are looking to damage shooting as a whole.

politics.co.uk understands negotiations within the Lead Ammunition Group, which has been seeking consensus to provide advice to ministers on the risks to wildlife from lead ammunition for the last 18 months, are making limited progress.

The Lead Ammunition Group is set to put its findings to ministers by March 2013, assisting the Law Commission in its review of wildlife legislation.

BASC chairman Peter Glenser said: «The government has engaged in a lengthy, evidence - based analysis of the use of lead ammunition and has found there is no reason to change the law.

A group is being brought together to advise Defra and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on issues connected with the use of lead ammunition.

BASC has always been clear that any proposed review of lead ammunition must only be conducted on the basis of sound scientific evidence and proper process.

In a letter to the chairman of LAG, environment secretary Liz Truss MP said the report «did not show that the impacts of lead ammunition were significant enough to justify changing current policy».

BASC argued that a science - based approach should be key to decision - making when it attended an international conference which examined the use of lead ammunition and the illegal killing of birds

The consultation covers the impact of restrictions, the efficiency and safety of alternatives to lead ammunition, and calls for evidence on experiences and compliance with existing regulations and the effects on wildlife and water eco-systems.

The authors of the study have called for greater awareness among policy makers of the threat that lead ammunition may pose to vultures.

The Convention for Migratory Species (CMS) has also urged all signature countries to phase out the use of lead ammunition.

Lead, which condors consume when scavenging at carcasses of animals killed with lead ammunition, is the main factor limiting their recovery; lead toxicosis was responsible for 26 % of juvenile condor deaths and 67 % of adult condor deaths between 1992 and 2009.

Reducing the use of lead ammunition will make it feasible to reintroduce condors in Northern California.

Collecting blood samples from 137 vultures and 27 ravens, they found that lead levels in ravens were almost six times higher during hunting season, when they were exposed to animal remains tainted with lead ammunition, than the rest of the year.

«We want to avoid having people exposed to lead to the extent that it's feasible and practical, and it's clear that one of the key ways to minimize exposure is to use alternatives to lead ammunition,» said Dr. Michael Kosnett, a medical toxicologist at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine.

While there is no European Union standard for lead ammunition, Denmark was the first to ban lead shot for waterfowl in wetlands in 1985, followed throughout the 1990s by Norway, the Netherlands, Finland, England, Spain and Sweden.

But it's the science pointing to possible human health impacts that has Schulz convinced that there's more than enough scientific evidence to begin a phase - out of lead ammunition.

«Our goal is to eliminate the use of lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle in parks by the end of 2010,» Wenk said when announcing the proposal in March.

Last fall, California banned all hunters from using lead ammunition, based partly on another 2013 AMBIO paper by Thomas that outlined lead - free alternatives.

Her research has shown that lead - based ammunition is the main source of lead poisoning in California condors, which are scavengers and ingest bullet fragments when they feed on the carcasses of animals shot with lead ammunition.

Lead ammunition is cheaper and popular with hunters.

On 7 June, the CBD filed a lawsuit to require the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban lead ammunition, but the agency maintains that it lacks the legal authority to do so.

«The question needs to be asked,» said Jennifer Kerns, spokeswoman for Free California, a gun - rights group that opposed the lead ammunition ban.

«For someone who did not hesitate to take the moral high ground in denigrating the ethical standards of hunters during the campaign to ban lead ammunition, it is disappointing to see that Jennifer Fearing does not hold herself to those same ethical standards in properly disclosing her relationship with the governor,» Chuck Michel, California attorney for the National Rifle Association, said in a statement.

Gun rights groups point out that all six pieces of animal rights - related legislation Fearing lobbied for in the most recent legislative session were approved and signed by Brown, including Assembly Bill 711, which, over the objection of hunters, banned the use of lead ammunition.