Banning lead should not be a toxic issue.

RSPB's Agriculture Policy Officer, Ellie Crane, is attending the Convention on Migratory Species Conference of the Parties in Quito - vital decisions are in the process of being made - here's a guest...
Lead - new evidence suggests a greater risk to human health from fragmented ammunition

We've known for a long time that lead is toxic to mammals and birds. That's why its use has been reduced in all sorts of ways over our lifetimes - paints, petrol, fishing weights, shotgun pellets used...
Lead

I recently saw this . I commented a few months ago (blog of 28 July) on lead from shot or bullets affecting wildlife and even human health. I think we will hear more about this.
Why vicarious liability is failing to have an impact in Scotland

Duncan Orr-Ewing, RSPB Scotland's Head of Species and Land Management, discusses why vicarious liability in Scotland isn’t working and why the Independent Grouse Moor Review urgently needs to come up...
Lead groups

I've written a few times about the issue of lead, and announced in this blog last October that the RSPB was phasing out the use of lead ammunition for deer and predator control on our nature reserves...