Trumpeter Swan management
By 1920, following m ore th an a century of exploita tion and in to lerab le hum an en croachm ent, the m agnificent T rum peter Swan Cygnus Cygnus buccinator was con ceded by m any to be on the b rink of extinc tion, in all likelihood past the po in t o f no re tu rn. Fifty years la te r this nativ...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1030.6557 http://wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wildfowl/article/download/450/450/ |
| Summary: | By 1920, following m ore th an a century of exploita tion and in to lerab le hum an en croachm ent, the m agnificent T rum peter Swan Cygnus Cygnus buccinator was con ceded by m any to be on the b rink of extinc tion, in all likelihood past the po in t o f no re tu rn. Fifty years la te r this native o f the N orth A m erican con tinen t, th e largest w aterfow l in th e w orld, had recovered sufficiently for it to be officially declared no longer an endangered species, even though th e popu la tion is still sm all by many standards. This rem arkab le recovery is, in part, the result o f p ro tec tion from legalized hunting |
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