Dear SOSSA,
Several people have asked me about whether or not you are taking small
tissue samples or blood from your albatrosses for DNA work. Have you
considered this?
To Hugo's request, I think one has to try and prosecute. It is about
preventing it happening again. Not punishing the present perpetrators. Kick
their butts so future creeps now they will get these kicked just as hard.
Best wishes
G.J. Ingram
Annerley, Australia.
"Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas" Juvenal.
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> From: Hugo Phillipps <>
> To: SOSSA-Smith&Jenkin-Smith <>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: DATA "SHOT" ALBATROSS
> Date: Tuesday, 30 September 1997 8:58
>
> Lindsay and Janice -
>
> At 15:05 30/11/1997 -0800, you wrote:
> >For those that may be interested to know more about the Wandering
Albatross
> that >was SHOT at Bermagui, N.S.W, on the 25th September 1997...
>
> >This barbaric and willful shooting of albatrosses and other seabirds
cannot
> be >allowed to continue...
>
> Thanks for sending this info to BIRDING-AUS. My feeling is that the only
> short-term action that would reduce casual shooting of albatrosses and
other
> seabirds is to ban guns (or have very strict permits) on fishing vessels
and
> recreational watercraft within the AFZ (and state waters). This may be
> simplistic. Have you any other thoughts on the matter?
>
> Regards, Hugo.
>
> Hugo Phillipps,
> Birds Australia Conservation & Liaison,
> Australian Bird Research Centre,
> 415 Riversdale Road,
> Hawthorn East, VIC 3123, Australia.
> Tel: +61 3 9882 2622. Fax: +61 3 9882 2677.
> Email: <>
> Web Homepage: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~birdsaus
>
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