Lead poisons and kills dozens of wildlife species and is also an acute threat to hunting families and others eating wild game shot with the toxic, irreducible metal ALBANY, N.Y. — A coalition of animal welfare, public health organizations, and wildlife management professionals, including a raft of Colorado-based groups, have filed a formal petition with the state’s Parks and … Read more
Decision by DEP and Fish and Game Council continues a reckless policy that puts wildlife and consumers of wild game meat at extreme risk TRENTON, N.J. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today announced the filing of a Notice of Appeal challenging the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) … Read more
It’s a close call, but lead is the only one that 60 million Americans are eating regularly If someone had it out for hunters and wanted to harm them and their families, that person might break into their homes and head for their gun cabinets. Wearing gloves to prevent leaving prints or DNA behind, they’d … Read more
Bill Ferguson shows no leadership in addressing the largest commercial use of lead, putting at risk immense numbers of Marylanders and all wildlife in the state ANNAPOLIS, MD. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today condemned Senate President Bill Ferguson, D-46, Baltimore, for refusing to bring House Bill 1067 to a … Read more
LOUISVILLE — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today issued the following statement in response to a deeply reported investigation by the Louisville Courier-Journal documenting the ongoing toll of lead poisoning on Kentucky’s bald eagles and other raptors. The article, “Inside the Mission to Save Kentucky’s Eagles from Lead Poisoning,” details a persistent and preventable … Read more
The U.S. House is taking up a bill today to allow hunters to keep dispersing thousands of tons of lead on our public lands I am just amazed at how people rationalize their needless killing and torment of animals. I am talking today about the mass use of lead ammunition in sport hunting in America. … Read more
ALBANY, NY — The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action have filed a formal petitionwith the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) calling on the agency to initiate rulemaking to prohibit the ongoing use of lead-based ammunition for sport hunting across the state’s fields and forests and marshlands. The groups assert that the … Read more
Lead poisons and kills dozens of wildlife species and is also an acute threat to hunting families and others eating wild game shot with the toxic, irreducible metal ALBANY, N.Y. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, key Audubon organizations across New York, and more than 15 other organizations today announced the filing of … Read more
Lead ammo by the numbers: 80,000 tons of lead ammo on 1.5 billion acres, 20 million animals killed, 60 million Americans eating lead-inflected game meat Bald eagles are dying. It’s not DDT of yesteryear causing reproductive failure. Eagles are perishing from plumbism, or lead poisoning. It’s happening from Alaska to Florida. According to the Wildlife … Read more
Millions of animals and millions of Americans — kids, pregnant women, and the needy — are at risk from an element known to be deadly, irreducible for 2,000 years Nobody should use bullets that keep killing long after being discharged from a firearm. But that’s exactly what happens when hunters load lead rounds into their … Read more
ANTIGO, WI — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy today announced a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the poacher responsible for shooting an American white pelican now in recovery at the Raptor Education Group, Inc. (REGI) in Antigo, Wisconsin. Earlier this month, REGI admitted a severely … Read more
More than 100 species are victims of plumbism, as are hunting families WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Lead Endangers Animals Daily (LEAD) Act, H.R. 6268, to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to phase out lead ammunition and lead fishing tackle on the country’s 573 National Wildlife Refuges. … Read more
How online rodent-killer sales are killing America’s wildlife by Ted Williams Dr. Maureen Murray of Tufts Wildlife Clinic in North Grafton, Massachusetts, was trying and failing to maintain a clinical countenance. She was clicking through X-rays from necropsies she’d done on raptors killed by second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), and the images were depressing both of … Read more
Millions of hunters continue to disperse thousands of tons of lead into the environment, putting people in jeopardy and causing pain and death for wildlife Nobody should use bullets that keep killing long after discharged from a firearm. But that’s exactly what happens when hunters load lead rounds into their shotguns and rifles, take aim … Read more
Millions of hunters have already switched to copper, steel, and non-toxic metals for ammunition. Washington D.C. — Today, U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., introduced legislation to phase out the use of lead ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges. The legislation will reduce needless, incidental poisoning of millions of wild animals by lead … Read more
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to slow walk banning lead ammunition on just two percent of 400+ refuges allowing sport hunting. Washington, D.C. — Animal Wellness Action, the Center for a Humane Economy, and the Animal Wellness Foundation strongly criticized a final rule from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that purports to address the ongoing, mass … Read more
Animal Wellness notes that millions of hunters have already switched to copper, steel, and far less toxic metals for ammunition Washington D.C. — Late this week, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., introduced legislation to phase out the use of lead ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges. The legislation would put an end to the needless incidental poisoning … Read more
Science Study Documents Continent-Wide Effects of Lead Ammo on Eagles If sport hunters had shot and injured or killed thousands, or even tens of thousands of bald and golden eagles, there’d be an uninterrupted uproar. Rightly so. The perpetrators, if there were any justice, would be prosecuted under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Or, under … Read more
Animal Wellness notes that millions of hunters have already switched to copper, steel, and far less toxic metals for ammunition Washington D.C. — Today U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, D-Ca., introduced legislation to phase out the use of lead ammunition on National Wildlife Refuges, putting an end to the needless incidental poisoning of millions of wild animals … Read more
The Golden State is the nation’s first to adopt a ban on toxic and deadly hunting hardware Bullets should not keep killing long after they’ve left the barrel of a firearm. Starting today in California, they won’t. I worked with other advocates on a series of California bills starting more than a decade ago to … Read more