AR-News: (Malaysia) Ongoing wildlife trade woes

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

UNCONTROLLED wildlife trade can cause Asia to lose much of its unique 
biodiversity, said experts of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) on Sunday.  
Dr Melvin Gumal, WCS scientist and director of WCS’s Malaysia Programme said 
the population of many species is declining or facing local extinction as Asia’
s wildlife is being sold on a massive scale for food, medicine and the pet 
trade.  
Species that were once common are becoming rare as they are being snared and 
sold in the marketplace, said WCS experts.  
Another COP-7 delegate, Dr Kent Redford, WCS Conservation Institute director 
said that it was easier to see animals in the marketplace than in many Asian 
forests.   
“When animals that perform vital roles as predators, pollinators and seed 
dispersers disappear, other species will also go,” warned Dr Redford. 




full story:
http://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2004/2/11/features/7289798
&sec=featur


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