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Pesticide poisoning of animals of wild fauna
V Antoniou1, N Zantopoulos, D Skartsi
1Center of Veterinary Institutions of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Abstract:
Poisoning of rare birds of prey (7 Aegipius monachus and 1 Aquila chrysaetus) and 11 foxes by carbofuran is reported. The poisoning is an ecological disaster because of the death of A monachus, which is a rare species. Identification, confirmation and distribution of the toxic substance was performed by TLC and HPLC techniques.