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 *  Many pesticides have been shown to cause significant damage to wild species.
 * Carbofuran, for example, was recently banned for most uses, as it was responsible for the near extinction of the burrowing owl.
 *  Similarly, fenitrothion, which was the mainstay of the New Brunswick budworm spray programme for decades, will be banned in 1998 (although the government decision leaves open the possibility of using fenitrothion against other insects where there is no economic alternative !).
 *  Fenitrothion caused huge mortality in the songbird populations of New Brunswick. Scientists from the Canadian Wildlife Service identified it as "environmentally unacceptable".
 *  In some areas, pesticide contamination, coupled with other toxic pollution, has created a chemical soup with far-reaching implications.
 * Years ago, gulls' eggs in the Great Lakes region were found to contain dioxin, a deadly substance contaminating phenoxy herbicides.
 *  Increased evidence points to widespread and disturbing impacts on Great Lakes wildlife, including enlarged thyroids, cancers, deformed bills, and the feminization of male animals (i.e. the animals are genetically male, with female, or both male and female, reproductive organs).
 * This characteristic of many pesticides is now identified as "endocrine disruption".
 *  Evidence indicates that even the family dog is a victim of pesticides.
 * Dogs from homes with lawns that have been sprayed with pesticides have a higher than average rate of the canine equivalent of lymphoma. Cancer is now the number one cause of death in dogs.
 * . **A National Cancer Institute study in the U.S. indicates that children are as much as six times more likely to get childhood leukemia when pesticides are used in the home and garden.**
 * A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health (February, 1995) found elevated levels of cancer in children where pesticides were used in their homes and yards.
 *  They found a particularly high correlation in homes where dichlorovos pest strips were used.