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QUESTION: Could you provide me with information detailing the current restrictions on lead ammunition in Australia? - 31 Oct 2007 Idaho, USA The Peregrine Fund is holding a conference in May 2008 about the health implications of spent lead ammunition in Humans and Wildlife. I am compiling information about the regulations and bans around the world regarding lead ammunition. Could you provide me with information detailing the current restrictions on lead ammunition in Australia? Regards, Dominique Avery Second Conference Announcement and Call for Papers Ingestion of spent lead ammunition: Implications for wildlife and humans. Convened by The Peregrine Fund 12-15 May 2008 At Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, USA The goal of the conference is to promote a better understanding of ingested spent lead ammunition as a source of lead exposure and to reduce its effect on wildlife and humans. For details, visit: http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/ Register now. Early registration discount ends 1 March 2008 Submit your papers and posters now. Abstract deadline 1 March 2008. For a flyer to post on bulletin boards, visit: http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/Flyer%20March08.pdf Or contact: The Peregrine Fund 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane Boise, Idaho 83709 Tel: (208)-362-3716 Please forward this announcement to others who may be interested. Thank you. Searchable Bibliography is now available: The Peregrine Fund is compiling a comprehensive selection of articles on lead in wildlife and humans. The searchable bibliography is available at http://www.peregrinefund.org/subsites/conference-lead/2008PbConf_Background.htm This is a work in progress and we are lacking references on the effects of lead on human health. If you know of any resources that should be added to the database please contact Dominique Avery with details. Lead ammunition in the News: California legislature approved a bill to ban the use of lead ammunition within the range of the California population of condors. Visit California Votes to Protect Endangered Condors by Banning Lead Ammunition for full details. In other recent news, a complete ban of lead ammunition for public hunting on both Fort Hunter Liggett and Camp Roberts military bases is being phased in. Visit http://projectgutpile.blogspot.com/2007/05/camp-roberts-hunting-program-is-going.html for full details. Tejon Ranch has announced a lead ammunition ban that will go into effect with the 2008 hunting season. Go to their website http://tejonranch.com/press-release/taking-the-lead-on-lead/ to read the full story. Assistant to the International Programs Director The Peregrine Fund 5668 West Flying Hawk Lane Boise, ID 83709 (208) 362-8266 |
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ANSWER: 05 Jun 2009 Dear Dominique, I realize that we are way too late to provide this information in time for your conference but we simply did not have enough volunteers at the time you wrote to research and answer all the inquiries and we have one volunteer now so we're trying to catch up on all the old emails. Please find attached a Letter regarding moves to ban lead in shot and fishing sinkers by The Australian Government, from our federal environment department, which states (in part) that: To date, State and Territory governments have largely been responsible for restricting or banning of the use of lead shot in Australia. Where outright bans on the use of lead shot have not been introduced, as an alternative, restrictions on the use of lead shot have been implemented in areas of Australia where lead poisoning of wildlife is known to occur, or high lead densities have been recorded. This has been the case in the Northern Territory, where the NT Conservation Commission banned the use of lead shot at hunting reserves. The following actions have been taken by State and Territory governments to limit the amount of spent lead shot accumulating in waterways:
In addition to these regulations on the use of lead shot, steel shot has been widely available in Australia for more than two decades. According to statistics provided by the Lead Development Association International, only 2% of lead consumption by end-use is used to produce lead shot. Shooters have, mostly voluntarily and partially due to State and Territory government regulations, substituted lead shot for less toxic alternatives (such as steel or bismuth shot). [END OF EXTRACT OF LETTER] Again, my apologies for the delay and I hope your conference went really well. Yours Sincerely Elizabeth O’Brien |
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