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WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY 



The only way to get the incentive system right aiid thereby 

 encoarage the development of sustainable and humane methods of 

 captive breeding and wild ranching of parrots is to keep the WBCA 

 fitrong and Intact. Anything else will simply play into the hands 

 of those whose principal (thoiigb often hidden) agenda Is to 

 maintain an unlimited flow of inexpensive parrots to satisfy 

 their mania for i>arrot collecting and trading. It is important 

 for you and your colleagues to see through the smokescreen of 

 conservation rhetoric eoianating from some "avicultural" 

 organizations, for study after study has demonstrated that the 

 most cost effective way to conserve wild species of parrots or 

 most other large vertebrates is not through captive breeding in 

 zioos and in private collections, but rather through measures to 

 protect wild populations together with the habitat on which they 

 depend . 



Thank you for your consideration. I would be happy to answer any 

 questions you may have about the excellent features of the Wild 

 Bird Conservation Act. 



BincereJy, 



Charles A. Munn, Ph.D. 

 Senior Conservation Zoologist 



fax in the U.S. 215 923 5535, tel 3641 



tel/fax in Peru (where I am until 1 return to U.S. on 5 Nov 



1995): 011 51 14 498569 or 811 51 14 307170. 



