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Carrion Baggage
California condor still endangered by lead bullets |
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12 Oct 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:52 PM on 12 Oct 2007 California condors came to the brink of extinction in the 1980s, largely from eating game felled by toxic lead bullets. A recovery effort has proved successful, but attempts to bring condors back into the wild have been frustrated by the birds' continuing poisoned-carrion habit. More than one-third of condors released into the wild in California over the past two decades have died; last year, 14 ... |
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| Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, endangered species, legislation, news, politics, state politics, toxics (all these topics) |
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