Category: lead ammunition ban

For three years now it has been illegal for hunters or anybody else shooting at wildlife within sanctuaries for California condors to use ammunition that contains lead. Steel, tungsten, copper, depleted uranium for all  I know, are ok . But a new study in the Proceedings of the Nat'l Academy of Sciences finds that many of the carrion-eating birds are still carrying chronic, dangerous quantities in their blood streams. Maybe it's old bullets still finding their way into the environment (pehaps in animals that got shot but lived on..) and more likely the inevitable poachers, land-owners, or others who didn't get the word on lead or don't care. Nobody...