There is only one solution to this problem ... and you gun nuts ain't going to like it!
There is only one solution to this problem ... and you gun nuts ain't going to like it!
Bull crap
BS
The lead poisoning is being caused by global warming...
Nice try commie. Ain’t gonna work.
Just how is it that the condor’s diet is so rich in lead? Do they purposely seek out expended bullets? Do they only eat rodents previously shot with lead projectiles? Do they live where there’s alot of lead dust in the air?
Seriously... how does this happen?
Nice try commie. Ain’t gonna work.
Another push to ban lead in ammunition. But just where is all of this hunting going on in California?
What do Californians hunt, and when is that season?
Do these enviro nuts not realize that question will be asked? The condors have to have a source of lead first. That would be from animals shot by hunters and then left for dead, which hunters do not do.
These extremists are foolish enough to believe their “study” will be widely accepted without question.
Fortunately things don’t work that way.
Hh, no - wait.
Unethical hunters go into the wild, shoot anything and everything that moves and then leaves the carcasses for the condors to eat.
OK - I get it.
Lead has been used for over a hundred years, fired at migratory water fowl over lakes, rivers and streams. The lead sinks to the bottom of the lake, river or stream, and stays put. Why don’t we see elevated lead rates in our drinking water from these lakes, rivers and streams? Certainly our drinking water would be adversely affected, right?
The lead in ammo is solid, it’s not a powder, it’s not a liquid - it’s a solid mass that will pass through the gut and be expelled along with other indigestable matter. Just like lead in solder, it’s chemically bound - it’s not a free radical.
This doesn't pass the smell test, and is clearly a statistic thrown in to force a "total ban" on lead ammunition.
This means that greater regulation of lead-based ammunition will be necessary to protect condors. Alternatives to lead ammunition are widely available, but regulations to limit the use of lead ammunition are opposed by most hunting organizations and ‘gun-rights’ groups.
And there it is, but I'm wondering why gun-rights is in quotes. The obvious reason is to call it into question.
It’s interesting to note that the ‘Californian’ condor was widespread throughout North America only 10,000 years ago, and throughout all of the Americas before that.
10,000 years ago. Long before lead ammunition arrived. Perhaps the demise of large ice-age mammals has been the downfall of the condor.
And all this time I thought it was the windmills that were chopping up the condors.
Some Democrat’s sister needs a job. She’ll be looking for lead in condor crap at $130,000 a year.
Guess I need to start breeding condors and selling them to gun ranges...
Those mugs look like a couple of mean buzzards.
And yet all the other vulture species are doing fine. Hmmmm, what is that I smell?
This is obviously bull crap without evidence that the lead is actually being consumed by the birds.
An unbiased environmental survey of the condor habitat would need to be done, and find actual evidence of lead-contaminated carrion that is prevalent enough to cause these effects, compared to other lead sources in the habitat.
Of course, we’d also need evidence that the condors were actually feeding on this carrion. And that this consumption was measurable affecting their lead levels. And that the elevated lead levels were measurably affecting their health.
But the BIG missing link in the chain of causation is the existence of lead-contaminated carrion in the condor habitat.
They come out with this same old BS every few years. I'm surprised that there's one bird left in the sky over America..........
Humans being driven to extinction from the green agenda and UN agenda 21
There, fixed it!
An Fw 200 Condor driven to extinction by lead poisoning.