Hey, hunters! I don’t care how many duck stamps you buy, if you are still hunting with lead you are not a conservationist. End of story.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s a shame that so much time, effort and money is going into saving these birds, only for all the effort to be undone because by such a simple problem to fix. Condors even benefit from hunting, when non-lead ammo is involved. It should be an open and shut case: no more lead, Condor recovery improves drastically.
A NO-BRAINER! With 67 percent of adult condor deaths being attributable to lead poisoning action is needed now. No one is suggesting banning hunting here, but for God’s sake, changing to an alternative ammunition to save unintended wildlife victims like eagles and other scavengers that eat lead from dead carcasses seems like the least we could do. It is a simple solution that shouldn’t be opposed by anyone, even if it costs a little bit more for the ammo, so what. Compared to losing another iconic species that’s been on the planet for at least 20,000 years, it is a small price to pay. Banning lead ammunition is the right thing to do for the environment and for wildlife. It’s a NO-BRAINER!
Did I say no-brainer? Here’s what the National Shooting Sports Foundation says on the subject. Really? Are you kidding me?
If hunters and anglers are actually conservationists, they should be behind this ban 100%. It shouldn’t be about money. It should be about saving needless deaths of endangered species.