[afro-nets] DDT stories 10.01.06

["Philip Coticelli" <pcoticelli@gmail.com>]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/78579,CST-EDT-REF30B.article'

The eagle's recovery is due in part to Environmental Defense's role in getting the pesticide DDT banned. Ingestion of DDT made eagle and other birds' eggshells so thin they were crushed when the adults sat on them. Home builders were instrumental by leaving undeveloped buffers around hundreds of nesting sites and by mitigating the effects on the birds' habitat. The recovery is also due to countless individual actions taken to protect and restore eagles either voluntarily or under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act.

*Fred Krupp is president of Environmental Defense; Jerry Howard is executive vice president and CEO of the National Association of Home Builders.

*A strange blend of our new anti-DDT friends' rhetoric and accusations that the medical establishment in Kenya will lose out on malaria drug market shares and NGOs won't be able to skim off the top of ACT/ITN donor funding if DDT is reintroduced.
http://www.eastandard.net/mag/mag.php?id=1143959002&catid=169

UNICEF fights malaria in Ethiopia with Coartem, ITNs and Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) http://www.europaworld.org/week279/ethiopia29906.html

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