ApocaDocs: Haven for birds still harbors traces of chemical poison

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Posted Sun May 25 2008: from Chicago Tribune:


	Haven for birds still harbors traces of chemical poison http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1211729409 "Some of Illinois' rarest and most imperiled birds return each spring to marshes on Chicago's Southeast Side, where they weave nests of loose reeds, start the season's courtship rituals and, scientists believe, resume ingesting a poison most people thought was gone a generation ago. Researchers studying the state's endangered population of black-crowned night herons reported this year that the birds contain remnants of the insecticide DDT, a contaminant popularly imagined to have faded into America's hazy chemical past, but which scientists say has lingered in a persistent form almost everywhere in the world nonetheless."

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The ApocaDocs say:

DDT... the poison that keeps on poisoning!