The bald eagle has been de-listed. I know that will mean absolutely nothing to most of you, it is a mere blip on the headlines of Paris Hilton's however manyth day in jail, but in the wildlife world it is significant. The Bald Eagle is no longer on the endangered species list. A magnificent recovery that can only have happened as a result of the complete eradication of DDT. For more information go here
[[LINK:http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?ContentID=6539]]
A moment in time when human beings did the right thing, we saw a problem and we fixed it, and it worked.
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