Good News for Reducing Poisoning Pressures on Scavengers and Waterbirds
Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) © Mike Barth The world’s largest conservation event – the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress has adopted an important motion to help make lead ammunition a poison of the past. Lead poisoning from ammunition sources is a long standing problem and it is known to contribute to population declines as well as creating extensive avoidable deaths and sickness amongst waterbirds and scavengers such as vultures.