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At least 30 bald eagles have been killed by a carbofuran in Maryland between 2009 and 2019. The toxic pesticide was fully banned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2009.
That these poisonings continued to happen long after the …
WNAV has learned seven of the bald eagles found in Dagsboro, Delaware in March 2016 were poisoned by carbofuran, along with the fox they fed on, according to information received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) through a …
The North Salisbury Elementary School Destination Imagination (DI) team took first place in their division at the DI Maryland Eastern Regional Tournament held Saturday at Salisbury Middle School – the team’s project was about bald eagles on the Eastern Shore …
A bald eagle that was tested by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in June 2018 was found to have DDE, a byproduct of DDT, in its liver. This was not the reason for the bird’s death, according to reports …
A bill to make the possession of carbofuran illegal will be introduced to the Maryland General Assembly in the upcoming legislative session. The federally banned pesticide has been used to kill wildlife on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for decades – before …