Many publications have investigated the ingestion and toxicity of metallic lead from hunting
and the shooting sports. However, there is limited literature on toxicity associated with the …

Lead poisoning is an important global conservation problem for many species of wildlife,
especially raptors. Despite the increasing number of individual studies and regional reviews …

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Ammunition and fishing weight usage is the greatest largely unregulated contributor of lead
(Pb) deposition to the European environment. While the range of negative impacts of Pb …

In many shallow water lakes of China, as the numbers of tourists observing waterflow
increases, the amount of supplemental food provided to waterflow also increases. However …

The main objective of this long‐term study (1978–2016) was to find the underlying factors
behind the declining trends of eider Somateria mollissima in the Baltic/Wadden Sea …

Populations of migratory waterbirds are facing dramatic declines worldwide due to illegal
hunting, habitat loss and climate change. Conservation strategies to reverse these trends …

Our ability to define the population status, migration routes and seasonal distribution of Bean
Geese Anser fabalis throughout the annual cycle in East Asia is severely compromised by …

Land use planning directly governs the location, size, and shape of urban parks, which can
act as habitat refuges for wildlife. Thus, land use planning decisions made decades, or even …

Lead is a potent metabolic poison that is highly toxic to all life; the World Health Organization
states that there is no safe level of exposure to lead. Despite its toxicity, lead is still …