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Britain’s ban on lead ammunition could save tens of thousands of birds from poisoning

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par Deborah Pain, Visiting Academic, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia, University of Cambridge
Niels Kanstrup, Wildlife Biologist in the Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University
Rhys Green, Professor of Conservation Science, University of Cambridge

The UK’s environment minister Emma Hardy has announced a ban on toxic lead ammunition to protect Britain’s countryside. This ban includes the sale and use for hunting of both lead shotgun ammunition (each cartridge of which contains hundreds of small lead pellets called “shot”), used mainly for hunting small game animals like gamebirds, and large…

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