[njlarsen]

I don't see anything about this on the list; I hope it can be made sufficiently unpopular that it does not go through. I don't personally have more info than what is copied below.

Niels

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 9:55 AM
Subject: from the American Bird Conservancy

The January 2005 issue of Bird Conservation from
the American Bird Conservancy (the magazine
regrettably is NOT on-line) has two excellent
stories pertinent to the insular Caribbean.

If you have a special interest in these articles,
you can write the editor and maybe he can help
--- that’s George Wallace <gwallace@abcbirds.org>.

One is about the White Breasted Thrasher: --->>>

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Soccer [Correction --- CRICKET] Match Threatens Thrasher
=================

This is a one page piece about the threats to the
highly endangered White Breasted Thrasher on St.
Lucia and Martinique, as a result of continuing
resort development, especially a hotel proposed
by DCG Properties LTD on Praslin Bay, St. Lucia,
in order to build rooms for the WORLD SOCCER
CUP
in 2007. Contact Mike Parr for information
<mparr@abcbirds.org>

[rka]

Unfortunately, tourism, industry and housing is destroying valuable bird habitat Caribbean-wide. Here in Trinidad, a proposed industrial park and rapid deforestation of the mountainous areas for housing is causing many naturalists to have nightmares.

And I haven't even started talking about garbage dumping and ifactory effluent.

[Kevin Mac]

Damn crickets! My girlfriend had cockroaches in her apartment and they were bad too. But crickets?! Is it like cock fights?