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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir: [QB] How nice to find out something like this from my country, here... [QUOTE]In another "sustainable use" proposal, the Fish and Wildlife Service announced in August a precedent-setting exemption to the Wild Bird Conservation Act, which was signed into law in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush. The policy would allow importation of the blue fronted Amazon parrot from Argentina. The agency is reviewing public comment. The prized parrots sell for several hundred dollars apiece. Stansell said Argentina, which approached Fish and Wildlife with the proposal, would allow the capture of about 10 nestling parrots from five nests in every 250 acres of parrot habitat. With export taxes of $40 to $80 per bird, a 250-acre area would generate $400 to $800 per year to support conservation. Stansell conceded that cutting down forest habitat and selling timber would generate far more money for landowners, but said the Argentine government concluded that owners would prefer sustainable returns from selling the birds.[/QUOTE]1992. Menem 'let's sell and privatize everything and fill our pockets with some commissions money' presidency. Not surprising. Especially given the deep relationship between Menem with Bush Sr. [QUOTE]Conservation biologists said the service made poor estimates -- or no estimates -- about how many parrots would be left. "It's an extraordinarily bad idea," said Jamie Gilardi, director of the World Parrot Trust, a conservation group that has filed opposition to the plan in a letter signed by 88 international biologists. "The quotas are based on poor or inadequate science -- and the sustainability issue is simply not addressed at all." The Fish and Wildlife Service's parrot proposal cited scientific estimates by Enrique Bucher, a top Argentine parrot biologist, in determining how many birds could be safely captured. But in a telephone interview from the University of Cordoba in Argentina, Bucher said his research actually showed the U.S. proposal was poorly conceived and lacked scientific oversight. "It's a very romantic idea, but in practice I do not know any positive examples," he said, referring to "sustainable use" plans. "The assumption that local communities will have the organization and altruism to put the money into long-term protection of the environment where you have terrible economic forces pushing for deforestation is a little naive."[/QUOTE]We had our share of extincted species. Thanks to some wildlife conservation projects approved in the last decade, we now have many reservoires and national parks beyond human handtouch. But, just like I told you, money talks between lower (and upper) gov'ment administrative types here... and it doesn't just talk, but makes a speech. I wouldn't be surprised that, if the present government doesn't take any measures, we'd be out of Amazonic blue parrots in a decade or less. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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