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Pesticide Use an important message by the American Bird
Conservancy The American Bird Conservancy reports on their
progress to control harmful pesticides. 2008 was a good year for
progress in the fight to protect wildlife and children from
hazardous pesticides. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) was persuaded to make strong regulations to reduce
exposure to rat poisons (rodenticides), continued the long and
difficult process of cancelling carbofuran, and made significant
changes in the use of aldicarb, one of the last highly toxic
granular pesticides. It is estimated that as many as 67 million
birds are killed by pesticides in the United States each year,
and millions more suffer from reduced breeding success as a
result of poisonings. There have now been cancellations or
significant restrictions for 22 of the 25 worst bird killers in
the American Bird Conservancy Avian Incident Monitoring System
database, our compendium of over 2,500 wildl