make much sense, as the Turkish national park law does not allow zonation and 
it does not even prohibit the development of an area (like the Olimpos National 
Park which is one of the main tourist development areas of Turkey). Therefore, 
the authors' recommendation may go in the wrong direction. 
They also recommend a "preserving and controlled form of nature-tourism" in 
order to give an economic basis for an integrated conservation conception. The 
power of this kind of tourism is clearly overestimated. If one takes into account 
that hundreds of tourist are necessary to secure the life of only a handful of local 
people throughout the year, one will quickly come to the conclusion that many 
thousands or even tens of thousands of tourists would have to come to the 
Menderes Delta in order to become a real regional economic factor which may 
form some basis of an integrated conservation concept and may thus compensate 
the economic loss of restrictions in fishery, agriculture etc. Tourism of this 
magnitude was apparently not in the mind of the authors. 
M Kasparek 
Zoology in the Middle East, Volume 5.1991. Edited by Ragnar 
Kinzelback and Max Kasparek. Heidelberg.DM 27. 
In this volume, five disciplines are covered in eight papers; mammals (one), birds 
(two), reptiles (two), insects (two) and leeches (one). By far the bulk of the 
journal's 118 pages are taken up with the two insect papers. 
Of the bird papers, the first deals with the 'Preliminary results on the wintering 
of the Dalmatian Pelican, Pelecanus crispus in Turkey^, while the second concerns 
the migration of the Grey Plover Pluvialis scfuatarola in Bulgaria. The latter, by 
Rolf Uhlig, is in German, apart from a brief English summary. However the 
former contribution constitutes another important, and eminently readable 
production on this globally threatened species by Dr Alain Crivelli and his 
associates. A significant reduction in the numbers of Dalmatian Pelicans wintering 
in Turkey is documented . As only a relatively small, although variable proportion 
of these are immigrants from the Balkan states, this is indicative of a real decrease 
in the breeding population in Turkey. At the time of writing, there was no 
accurate census of the major colonies in Turkey, but DHKD is now organising 
more regular and far more complete counts of the known breeding areas, in 
addition to prioritising a project to develop an integrated management plan for 
the Menderes Delta, now one of the most important areas for the Dalmatian 
Pelican in Turkey. Perhaps the most vulnerable colony appears to be that at the 
Kizilirmak Delta, where once up to 25 pairs bred, but where now only a few pairs 
breed, and these only ocassionally. 
Once again, the journal is produced to the usual high standard of Max Kasparek 
publications, the Dalmatian Pelican paper will be particularly welcomed by 
conservationists with an interest in Turkey. It is hoped that in the future the 
increasing activity of DHKD will enable even more accurate and informed 
analysis of the species' status in the region. 
Guy Kirwan 
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