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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Australian Cockatoo Slaughter
Message-ID: <1596@intercon.com>
Date: 1 Dec 89 20:42:29 GMT
Reply-To: ooblick@intercon.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation
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I have a friend who is writing an article for the International Environmental
Law Journal at my school who needs information on the slaughter of the
Australian cockatoos.  If anyone has seen any pertinent stuff, please 
send me e-mail.

For those who don't know, Australia sanctions the killing of thousands
of cockatoos each year.  The reason is destruction of crops by massive
flocks of the birds (especially galahs, citrons, sulfur crests, corellas)
descending on a field and laying it waste within a very short period of
time.  The Australian government (like the U.S. gov't) does not allow
the exportation of native birds (usually) so efforts by aviculturists to
have them exported as breeding stock have been rejected.

I'm looking for both points of view to send to him.  The article is being
considered for publication, so all information would be greatly appreciated.

Mikki Barry


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