Sentences with phrase «with lead ammunition»

That's mostly because of people, who fragmented the condor's habitat, strung up powerlines for the condors to run into, and poisoned the birds through poisoned bait, as well as carcasses contaminated with lead ammunition.

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.

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.

«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.»

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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.»

Novin added that «there has never been a documented case of lead poisoning among humans who have eaten game harvested with traditional ammunition.»

Pressure to ban lead - based ammunition in the U.S. intensified last year with the release of a report on threats to wildlife commissioned by The Wilderness Society and the American Fisheries Society.

The discovery prompted North Dakota to warn pregnant women and children 6 and under not to eat venison killed with ammunition containing lead.

Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.

Lead ammunition is cheaper and popular with hunters.

But the fact that the report comes from one of Brookings» three lead players (along with Russ Whitehurst and Darryl West) on school reform has proven to be good ammunition for Common Core foes.

Continuing threats to bald eagle populations include lead poisoning from ammunition in hunter - shot prey, collisions with motor vehicles and stationary structures, and development - related destruction of shoreline nesting, perching, roosting and foraging habitats.

RedOctane, now part of Activision, has always made the best Guitar Hero peripherals, and after widely publicised problems with the first run of Rock Band instruments, RedOctane and Guitar Hero World Tour's developer Neversoft hope that the game's alternative range will provide sufficient ammunition to reassert Guitar Hero's lead in the battle of the band game brands.

Physicist and leading energy critic, John Droz Jr. responded to Holliday's bleak draconian prediction saying, «This is the type of ammunition that will resonate with all citizens, anyplace fighting wind energy.»

Specifically, where existing regulations dealing with the storage of ammunition are not relevant, the Crown must lead expert evidence to establish that the storage of the ammunition was careless.