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Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter Alternative-Energy Guru Dr CROCODILE SPECIALIST GROUP NEWSLETTER VOLUME 27 No. 4 • OCTOBER 2008 - DECEMBER 2008 IUCN • Species Survival Commission CSG Newsletter Subscription The CSG Newsletter is produced and distributed by the Crocodile CROCODILE Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). The CSG Newsletterr provides information on the conservation, status, news and current events concerning crocodilians, and on the SPECIALIST activities of the CSG. The Newsletter is distributed to CSG members and to other interested individuals and organizations. All Newsletter recipients are asked to contribute news and other materials. The CSG Newsletterr is available as: GROUP • Hard copy (by subscription - see below); and/or, • Free electronic, downloadable copy from “http://iucncsg.org/ ph1/modules/Publications/newsletter.html”. Annual subscriptions for hard copies of the CSG Newsletterr may be made by cash ($US40), credit card ($AUD55) or bank transfer NEWSLETTER ($AUD55). Cheques ($USD) will be accepted, however due to increased bank charges associated with this method of payment, cheques are no longer recommended. A Subscription Form can be downloaded from “http://iucncsg.org/ph1/modules/Publications/ VOLUME 27 Number 4 newsletter.html”. OCTOBER 2008 – DECEMBER 2008 All CSG communications should be addressed to: IUCN - Species Survival Commission CSG Executive Offi ce, PO Box 530, Sanderson NT 0813, Australia. Fax: (61) 8 89470678. E-mail: [email protected]. PATRONS CHAIRMAN: We thank all patrons who have donated to the CSG and its Professor Grahame Webb conservation program over many years, and especially to PO Box 530, Sanderson, NT 0813 donors in 2007-2008 (listed below). Australia Big Bull Crocs! ($15,000 or more annually or in aggregate EDITORIAL AND EXECUTIVE OFFICE: donations) PO Box 530, Sanderson, NT 0813 Australia Japan, JLIA - Japan Leather & Leather Goods Industries Association, CITES Promotion Committee & All Japan Printed by: Uniprint NT Reptile Skin and Leather Association, Tokyo, Japan. Charles Darwin University, NT 0909 Heng Long Leather Co. Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Australia Roggwiller Tannery of Louisiana Inc. and Tanneries des Cuirs, France. Singapore Reptile Skin Trade Association, Singapore. D. & J. Lewkowicz, France Croco et Cie-Inter Reptile, Paris, COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Hatchling Cuban crocodile France. (Crocodylus rhombifer) at Criadero de la Ciénaga de Zapata. Bergen Aquarium (Norway) and Rene Hedegaard (Krokodille Photograph: John Thorbjarnarson. Zoo, Denmark). Friends ($3000 - $15,000) EDITORIAL POLICY: All news on crocodilian conservation, research, management, captive propagation, trade, laws and Mainland Holdings, Lae, Papua New Guinea. regulations is welcome. Photographs and other graphic materials Enrico Chiesa, Italhide S.R.L., Milan, Italy. are particularly welcome. Information is usually published, as Luis Martinez, Caicsa S.A. Colombian Reptiles, Colombia. submitted, over the author’s name and mailing address. The editors REA Kaltim Plantations PT, Indonesia. also extract material from correspondence or other sources and these Reptilartenschutz e. V., Offenbach, Germany. items are attributed to the source. If inaccuracies do appear, please Wabin Crocodile Farm and Nakorn Sawan Crocodile Farm. call them to the attention of the editors so that corrections can be published in later issues. The opinions expressed herein are those off the individuals identifi ed and are not the opinions of CSG, the SSC Supporters ($1000 - $3000) or the IUCN unless so indicated. Gordon-Choisy S.A., France. 2 St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, St. Augustine, The “CSG Review Report on Crocodile Conservation, FL, USA. Management and Farming in the Socialist Republic of Viet Terry Cullen, Cullen Vivarium, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Nam” has been fi nalised and released (see page 6). The full Phillip Cunliffe-Steel, New Zealand/USA. report is now available on the CSG website (http://iucncsg. Miroslav Prochazka, Zoo Protivin, Czech Republic. org/ph1/modules/Publications/reports.html). The main Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay, NV, USA. challenge for Viet Nam is to ensure imports of C. siamensis Pan American Leathers Inc., USA. from Cambodia, and exports, particularly to China, are fully Jorge Saieh, Zooben, Colombia. compliant with CITES. Efforts to register two additional George Saputra, Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. captive breeding farms in Viet Nam with the CITES Secretariat Singapore Zoo, Singapore. are now underway. The reported production statistics for one Tuttle Charitable Trust, USA. farm (21-22 hatchlings produced per captive adult female Yosapong Temsiripong, Sriracha Moda, and Crocodile maintained) should ideally be verifi ed by the Vietnamese Management Association of Thailand. CITES Management Authority. Utairatch Crocodile Farm and Zoo, Thailand. Vermillion Gator Farms, Inc., Abbeyville, LA, USA. During November 2008, a CSG review team, under the leadership of CSG Deputy Chairman Alejandro Larriera, Contributors ($250 - $1000) undertook a review of the conservation status, management and farming of crocodiles in Cuba. (see page 4). The full report Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans, LA, USA. with recommendations, in Spanish with English summary, is Brevard Zoo Animal Keepers, Brevard Zoo, Melbourne, FL, now available on the CSG website (http://iucncsg.org/ph1/ USA. modules/Publications/reports.html). Hybridisation between C. Broome Crocodile Park, Broome, WA, Australia. acutus and C. rhombifer, which appears to occur naturally in Cairns Crocodile Farm, Queensland, Australia. the wild, raises a series of novel problems for the conservation Cape May Zoo, USA. of C. rhombifer, which is endemic to Cuba and has a highly Crocodopolis, USA. restricted distribution. Simone Comparini, Pantera S.R.L., S. Croce s/Arno, Italy. Vic Mercado, Microlab, Philippines. Over the past two years the CSG has once again been trying to Reptel Leather Goods, Madagascar. assist Madagascar to improve the conservation, management Virginia Aquarium, Virginia Beach, VA, USA. and sustainable use of their C. niloticus population. Following Rachmat and Erik Wiradinata, Jakarta, Indonesia. a CSG review, fi eld surveys of the wild populations were Yee Tai Leather Enterprise Ltd., Hong Kong. implemented in July-August. However, exports of large skins and products made from large skins, clearly derived from the wild and not from the ranching program, continues unabated. Commercial international trade in C. niloticus skins from Editorial Madagascar is not sustainable, is detrimental to the survival of the wild population, and is blatantly in breach of CITES, The IUCN World Conservation Congress was held in Barcelona, which will need to act decisively on this issue. Spain, on 5-14 October 2008. The CSG was represented by Christine Lippai, who was able to provide an update on the The CSG, through member, Phil Steel, has been attempting CSG mission to Madagascar. Simon Stuart was appointed as to review the “Crocodile Survey and Action Plan”. Whilst a SSC Chair, replacing Holly Dublin. We take this opportunity number of nominated reviewers have responded, the majority to thank Holly for the ongoing support and encouragement are still outstanding. It would be appreciated if the selected she gave to the CSG. We of course look forward to working reviewers could fi nalise their components and get them back closely with Simon over the next triennium. to Phil, or alternatively, advise Phil so he can fi nd alternative reviewers. At the 19th CSG working meeting (Santa Cruz, Bolivia) the high levels of skin exports from Colombia, which Bergen Aquarium (Norway), in collaboration with Rene matched reported imports into other countries, were a matter Hedegaard at Krokodille Zoo (Denmark), has been sponsoring of signifi cant concern to the CSG. As a consequence, the a large, live crocodile exhibit, with 15 species and more than Colombian Government carried out a detailed analysis of 35 individuals, emphasizing conservation and knowledge trade levels and farm stocks, confi rming the WCMC analyses. generation. The exhibit has been very successful, receiving The origin of 1996 exports remains problematic, and the CSG over 257,000 visitors. The CSG has been pledged a modest continues to work with the Colombian Government to close contribution on a per visitor basis, which is earmarked to fund avenues through which large, illegally taken wild skins can the CSG Student Research Assistance Scheme [see CSGN enter the legal trade. The CSG has advised that a morphometric 27(2): 17]. We thank Bergen Zoo and Rene Hedegaard for the study be used to determine the real size of the individuals in contribution of $US25,000 received in mid-January 2009. trade, rather than having physical size limits for say “tails”, that can be met by trimming. Scute marking of hatchlings is There have been a number of changes to members of the CSG one mechanism under trial to ensure the legal farm origin of Steering Committee from the South Asia and Iran region (see skins. page 32). I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Dr. 3 Toshinori Tsubouchi and Janaki Lenin as the new Regional cancelled at the last minute, and the fi nal composition of Chairs for East and Southeast Asia and South Asia and Iran the team was Alejandro Larriera (CSG Deputy Chairman), respectively. Activities proposed for these regions include: a Carlos Piña (CSG Regional Chairman, Latin America and the CSG regional meeting in Madras, India, around October 2009; Carribean)
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