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For years, people have heard about the American Bald Eagle’s declining population and the tremendous rebound that it made in the last few years. Even now the population is still endangered. Recently, bald eagle days have shown the massive support for one of our nation’s emblems. This all could have been avoided by not using DDT, DDE, and DDD. DDT was the first chlorinated organic insecticide. It was originally prepared in 1873, but it …

…DDT has been has now been banned for 30 years and a month. There are places in the United States that still have DDT in the surface water and in the soil. Luckily, the usage of DDT is no longer common in the industrialized world, and the use was stopped before the majestic birds that we take for granted disappeared from their natural habitat. Only by penalizing countries that still use DDT will use completely stop.