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The number of migratory songbirds returning to North America has gone into sharp decline due to the unregulated use of highly toxic pesticides and other chemicals across Latin America.
Ornithologists blame the demand for out-of-season fruit and vegetables and other crops in North America and Europe for the destruction of tens of millions of passerine birds. By some counts, half of the songbirds that warbled across America’s skies only 40 years ago have gone, wiped out by pesticides or loss of habitat.

Doyle/IndependentUK/commondreams 04.Apr.08
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"We know who's brought it here but the authorities do nothing. Worse still is that there are businesses that are making a killing from selling this toxic waste as compost - it's far cheaper for farmers to buy and they often don't know any better. So it's then put on fields, on our crops and it gets into the food chain."

Mock/RNW 4.Apr.08
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Slow Food
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Songbird
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Migratory Songbird Conservation