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Hunters have faced numerous conservation challenges in the past. Our track record in addressing these challenges is unsurpassed, and the abundant wildlife that all Americans enjoy is the result of our commitment to conservation efforts – a commitment measured in hundreds of millions of volunteer hours and billions of dollars. Among the conservation challenges that are facing
hunters today is the potential of lead
poisoning from spent ammunition in California condors. Blood analysis shows
that up to 60 percent of free-ranging condors have elevated lead
levels (higher than background levels). Several dozen have received
emergency The exact nature of how condors are getting exposed to lead is unknown, but there is enough evidence available for hunters to take the issue seriously. That is, condors may get lead from a variety of sources, but lead from bullets or shot may be one of the sources. By collectively encouraging the hunting community to take proactive steps to protect condors from lead fragments that may remain in gut-piles or in un-retrieved hunter-killed carcasses, we help condors and help ensure our continued ability to use lead ammunition. We don’t want to see a ban on lead in condor areas. Therefore, hunting organizations have joined together in a coalition that endorses an education program that will teach hunters to take voluntary actions to minimize the exposure that condors may have to lead. We hope you will join us in this effort. Information on condors published in California hunting regulations
Information on condors published in Arizona hunting regulations |
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treatment to reduce toxic lead levels, and at least six (two in
California and four in Arizona) are known to have died from lead
poisoning.