Offensive:Racy: Very Likely | Adult: Possible Labels:ball | book | bulletin board | cake | case | earth | food | mango | newspaper | person | rock | shelf | sky OCR: HUMAN IMPACT Perearine Falcon(Falco perearinus Steven Holt Organochlorines used as pesticides, DDT in particular, have had the worst impacts on raptors and other wildlife Several properties lead to their devastating effects They are chemically stable and op not quickly break down into less harmful substances in the environment. Organochlorines are fat soluble and accumulate in fatty tissue 60 they are passed along between living things. They can destroy reproductive activity when present in only few parts per million ir tissues. DDT breaks down into DDE which causes eggshell thinning Fragile eggs are likely to break during incubation. habitats where organochlorines are dense certain raptor populations become seriously threatened or completely disappear. These Peregrine Falcon eggs were aff ...
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