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02-10-2006, 07:32 AM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Does anyone have any specific information on the decline of any species solely attributed to pollution? Eg-nitrate wash off into rivers killing fish/ lead from exhausts killing insects/ crop sprays entering the food chain and killing raptors. I need to draw up something like this for my environment club using a real life example.
We've done habitat loss, global warming and natural disasters already. I need to concentrate a bit on pollutants now. Julie. Thanks.
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02-10-2006, 11:11 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Peoples Democratic Republic of South Cheshire
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Another pollution is that of Light Pollution from security lamps, flood lighting and street lighting ...... most of it uneccessary and highly wasteful of energy resulting in a further contribution to CO2 emmissions and the "Greenhouse Effect", probably has had a negative effect on the Glowworm population plus probably draws many insects to their deaths. |
02-10-2006, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman Does anyone have any specific information on the decline of any species solely attributed to pollution? Eg-nitrate wash off into rivers killing fish/ lead from exhausts killing insects/ crop sprays entering the food chain and killing raptors. I need to draw up something like this for my environment club using a real life example.
We've done habitat loss, global warming and natural disasters already. I need to concentrate a bit on pollutants now. Julie. Thanks. | Environment club?...sounds fun or is it a thing at your school? |
03-10-2006, 07:12 AM
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Sorry Dan. 10-11 year olds only. Think the stubble might give you away!. 
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03-10-2006, 08:36 AM
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the first one that comes to mind is ddt DDT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DDT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
03-10-2006, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr Mag00 | DDT is the classic one and it took 30 years before something was done, dramaitc fall in the Opsrey population was just one effect of DDT but all sorts of other insidous effects have been claimed down to birth effects in humans.
Yet another was "Agent Orange" used in Vietnam by the US to defoliat forests this caused horrific birth defects in the Vietnamese Population what was not mentioned was its effect on other species and of course the effect of the defoliation of the forests where it was used.
On petrol and lead pollution conversations thirty years ago with Peter Forder and Geofrey Wotherspoon brought the opinion that it was probably the developemnt of the oil refineries in the Ellesmere Port area of Cheshire that caused the extinction of the Silver-studded Blue in Delamere Forest. Perhaps similar influences may have caused its dissapearance from the Cannock Chase area as well. Interesting though is that the sole survivng colony is located between two very busy trunk roads, and that there seems to have been an increase in the population there since the start of widespread use of unleaded petrol.  | | |
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