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JETSKIS v WADERS

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Subject: JETSKIS v WADERS
From: Joyce Harding <>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 12:55:18 +1000
Summer  is here  and with it comes the waders/shorebirds from Siberia and
other places north.  With the summer also comes Jetskis  with their
energetic riders.  Little is known about what happens when these two meet in
our bays, estuaries and coastlines.  Australia's commitments under  Ramsar
and JAMBA should not be disregarded by the users of ever increasing  numbers
of  leisure craft  on our waterways.

Should you witness  such a meeting ,  we would be interested in a report of
its effect on the birds.  How, Where, When, State of Tide  also amount of
wash may be important. Does the meeting occur on a tidal sandbank?  Don't
forget the date.

This information will be used  by the Australasian Wader Studies Group and
the Queensland Wader Study Group  for implementing  a policy and code of
ethics to regulate  Jetskis and other  craft in and near National Parks and
areas listed as important for the protection and conservation of Shorebirds. 

If you do not wish to use birding/aus  send direct to  Conservation Officer,
Australasian Wader Studies Group c/o RAOU.  Please keep this request in
mind when out and about this summer.  

SHOREBIRDS   ARE   SPECIAL.............JH. 

email <  >   or    <  >    or
mail to    AWSG  c/-  RAOU,  415 Riversdale Rd., Hawthorn East,   Vic.3123.
Australia
JDH


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