This was not a scene from a new horror movie about a mysterious plague. The birds died from lead poisoning. This wasn’t decades ago or in a third world country with no environmental regulation. It was ...

Yet toxic lead is still entering the food chain through widespread use of lead hunting ammunition and fishing tackle, poisoning wildlife and even threatening human health. At least 75 wild bird ...

Yet toxic lead is still entering the food chain through widespread use of lead hunting ammunition and fishing tackle, poisoning wildlife and even threatening human health. At least 75 wild bird ...

Dr Jenny Jaffe of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), who worked on the study, said birds of prey, and especially scavengers, eat animals that contain lead shot, leading to lead poisoning.

Wildlife charities and campaigners are calling for the government to end the use of toxic lead ammunition. The Wildfowl and ...

Resident Michael Loveridge reported he had been seeing dead birds in Port Pirie ... further tests revealed the wildlife were killed by lead poisoning. "Subsequent testing determined acute lead ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — It’s deer hunting season for Siouxland hunters. But when ammunition ends up inside other birds and animals, there can be trouble. A Sioux County bald eagle – a ...