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Conserving Pacific Island flying foxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2009

Amie Bräutigam  and
Thomas Elmqvist
Amie Bräutigam
Affiliation:
Deputy Chairman, Species Survival Commission Trade Specialist Group of IUCN, the World Conservation Union, Center for Marine Conservation, 1725 DeSales Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20036, USA.
Thomas Elmqvist
Affiliation:
Department of Ecological Botany, Umea University, 90187 Umea, Sweden.
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Abstract

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Pacific Islanders, conservationists, and bat biologists are applauding the recent decision of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to increase protection of flying foxes, or fruit bats, of the genera Acerodon and Pteropus from the adverse effects of international trade into US jurisdictions in the Pacific. This decision culminates efforts dating as far back as 1981 to control international trade in these species, which has decimated populations on many islands. It poses a challenge to US government authorities to institute wildlife trade controls in the Pacific and to Pacific Island governments, many of which are not yet CITES members, to develop effective measures to control exports of these and other species.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 81 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1990

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