Some species of eagles have been fighting extinction due to

Last updated: 7/18/2022

Some species of eagles have been fighting extinction due to environmental hazards such as DDT, PCBS, and dioxin. The problem is with the food chain. Fish or rodents consume contaminated food and/or water. Then the eagles ingest the poison, which in turn affects the durability of the eagles' eggs. It takes only 44 parts per million of certain chemicals to ruin an eagle egg; write this number as a fraction in lowest terms.