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Volume 25 1991 Pages 1-248

Blackwell Scientific Publications OXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH BOSTON MELBOURNE PARIS BERLIN VIENNA Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.34.90, on 01 Oct 2021 at 10:55:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605300034293 CONTENTS

Volume 25 January 1991 Volume 25 April 1991

News and Views 1 News and Views 61

Briefly 5 Briefly 66

Profligate spending exploits wildlife in Rockhopper penguins and other marine Taiwan life threatened by driftnet fisheries at Chryssee Bradley Martin and Esmond Tristan da Cunha Bradley Martin 18 Peter G. Ryan and John Cooper 76 Rain forests of central The golden-backed uacari on the upper Borneo—threatened by modern Rio Negro, Brazil development Adrian Barnett and Alexia Richard E. Bodmer, Robert J. Mather and Celeste da Cunha 80 David ]. Olivers 21 Humboldt's woolly monkeys decimated What future for European seals now the by hunting in Amazonia epidemic is over Carlos A. Peres 89 Mark Simmonds 27 How many green turtles nest on Aldabra? Status of West Indian racers in the Lesser Wendy Seabrook 96 Antilles Richard A. Sajdak and Robert Cuvier's gazelle in Algeria W. Henderson 33 Koen de Smet 99

Rattlesnake collection drives—their Buffy-headed marmosets 10 years on implications for species and Stephen F. Ferrari and Sergio environmental conservation L. Mendes 105 Clifford Warwick, Katrina Steedman and Tricia Holford 39 The Pemba fruit bat—on the edge of extinction? The steppe marmot—its past and future Dmitri Bibikov 45 Ole Seehausen 110

Conservation of large avian frugivores Book Reviews 113 and the management of Neotropical protected areas News from the SSC 115 Stuart D. Strahl and Alejandro Grajal 50 FFPS News 118 Book Reviews 56

FFPS News 57

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Volume 25 July 1991 Volume 25 October 1991

News and Views 121 News and Views 181

Briefly 125 Briefly 186

The wild dog—Africa's vanishing The Philippine Spotted Deer carnivore Conservation Project John H. Fanshawe, Lory H. Frame and William L. R. Oliver, C. Roger Cox and Joshua R. Ginsberg 137 Louella L. Dolar 199

The status and conservation of the The critical condition of hutias in Cuba Chacoan peccary in Paraguay Vicente Berovides Alvarez and Antonio Andrew B. Taber 147 Comas Gonzalez 206

Belize—a last stronghold for manatees The evolution of legal controls on in the Caribbean rhinoceros products in Hong Kong—an Thomas J. O'Shea and Charles A. 'Lex' Asian model worth considering Salisbury 156 TomMilliken 209

A new forest shrew from southern Assam's rhinos face new poaching threats Tanzania Lucy Vigne and Rainer Hutterer, Paulina D. Jenkins and Esmond Bradley Martin 215 Walter N. Verheyen 165 Conservation in Saudi Arabia Villas, villagers and tortoises in Chris Thouless 222 Greece—a sequel Dirachma socotrana—back from the brink? Adrian Hailey and Vassilis Goutner 169 M. Bazara'a, L. Guarino, A. Miller andN.Obadi 229 Book Reviews 172 Book Reviews 233 FFPS News 175 News from the SSC 235

FFPS News 237

Index to Volume 25 241

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Patron HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Address Council FFPS, 1 Kensington Gore, London Dr Jeremy Cherfas SW7 2AR,UK Bruce Coleman Dr Mark Collins Registered Charity Nicholas Hammond No. 250358 Edward Hoare Richard Howard President Dr Chris Humphries Lord Craigton, PC, CBE James MacEwen Dr David Macdonald Vice-Presidents Christopher Parsons Dr E. A. O. Asibey (Ghana) Professor Paul Racey Sir David Attenborough CBE FRS (UK) Richard Steele Dr David Bellamy (UK) Dr Ian Swingland Dr Felipe Benavides OBE (Peru) Dr Barry Thomas Dr Gerard A. Bertrand (USA) Susan Wells Lt Col C. L. Boyle OBE (UK) Roger Wheater OBE Mervyn Cowie CBE ED (Kenya) Dr P. Wyse Jackson Ralph Daly OBE (Sultanate of Oman) Gerald Durrell OBE (UK) Editor of Oryx Maisie Fitter (UK) Dr Jacqui Morris Richard Fitter (UK) Major Ian R. Grimwood OBE (Kenya) Editorial Board of Oryx Grenville Lucas OBE (UK) Dr Pat Morris (Chairman) Academician V. E. Sokolov (USSR) Dr Kathleen Blanchard Dr Lee M. Talbot Dr Lee Durrell Maisie Fitter Chairman Dr Terry Graham David M. Jones Nicholas Hammond Dr Chris Humphries Vice-Chairman Anthony Huxley Dr David Chivers Brian Jackman Honorary Treasurer Dr Alison Jolly Edward Wright MBE Dr John Sparks R. I. Vane-Wright Dr Maureen Whalen Edward Wright

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