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Wildlife Protection
Safe Pesticides &
Safe Products
EPA researchers are currently working to advance understanding of how natural populations of birds, fish, and other wildlife respond to multiple stressors. This emphasis on how populations and communities are simultaneously impacted by more than one threat marks a departure from the older approach which focused on how a single species was affected by a specific chemical or pesticide.
Scientists are making progress in their efforts to protect wildlife by developing tools and methods that can generate probabilistic assessments of risk; specifically, they are constructing mathematically based models and incorporating geo-spatial information to better assess the risks posed by man-made chemicals. Research in this area will help EPA regulators make better use of the data they receive when a new chemical product is submitted for registration and when existing products are reviewed.
Additional details about EPA's work to protect wildlife are outlined in the Wildlife Research Strategy (PDF, 56 pp., 5.5 MB, about pdf)
