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Podcast: Our Changing World
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Lead bullets - a health risk for humans and kea
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:26:55
Publish Date: 2024-10-23 16:00:00
Description: Every year in New Zealand, recreational hunters shoot more than half a million wild game. Most are shot with lead-based ammunition. Now, researchers are investigating what happens to that lead, and how much of it is getting into the food chains of humans and the endangered kea. Alison Ballance speaks to scientists at Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology, and kea conservationists and predator control experts at the Department of Conservation to learn more.
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