Where eagles and more are dying….

Credit: Hillebrand, Steve; USFWS

Phil Potter, a sports columnist with the Evansville, Indiana, Courier & Press, reports that outdoor sports enthusiasts are observing a disturbing scarcity of small wildlife in this article, Numbers seem to be thinning for rabbits, birds, posted on December 17.

He says that local hunters are beginning to wonder if something truly ‘sinister’ is going on and theories being considered range from genetically modified grains to poisons.

Could be since we have one big company perversely engineering grain crops to tolerate heavier and heavier applications of one of its own poisons, and then we have the USDA and various independent contractors on a tear using DRC-1399.

Is someone running around the country with the USDA’s perfect poison?
Mass bird deaths in Yankton, SD attributed to USDA poison DRC-1339

Maybe its time to consider the possibility of ‘overkill’ caused by overuse of pesticides due to the lobbying efforts of US chemical companies before it’s too late for the national bird – and us?

Where eagles die

Published online 18 January 2011
Nature News

Flaws in Alaskan island rat-eradication project laid bare.
Brendan Borrell

Misjudgements made two years ago during a rat-eradication programme on Alaska’s aptly named Rat Island, which led to the death of more than 420 birds — including 46 bald eagles — have now been detailed….

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