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From: Preston Hardison <pdh@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Wild Bird Conservation Act
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   I have a copy of a message from the Association for Parrot Conservation 
   posted on CONSLINK requesting scientific and expert opinion on the 
   Wild Bird Conservation Act, first authorized in the US Congress in 1992. 
   The WBCA is up for reauthorization, and there are a number of groups
   lobbying to rescind the act, or change the provisions so that it
   will be more difficult or impossible to distinguish wild caught birds
   from captive bred ones. The Association for Parrot Conservation
   is particularly interested in international evidence that the US
   law is promoting conservation outside of the US.

   For more information, e-mail me and I will send the original request,
   or contact:

   Ellen Paul
   University of Maryland
   Graduate Program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology
   toodles@wam.umd.edu   
   (for Dr. Enrique Bucher, President, Association for Parrot Conservation)
.