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Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

E. J. Ausems
Affiliation:
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Council of Europe Secretariat-General, BP 431 R6, 6 7006 Strasbourg Cedex, France.

Abstract

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Type
Short Communications: Reports, Comments, News, Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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References

* As recounted on pages 77–8 of our Spring issue.—Ed.

In response to our query the Author replied: ‘The drafting Committee meant to say that exploitation should be stopped as soon as any population, subspecies, or variety, should become at risk even locally’.—Ed.

In answer to our request for clarification about this, the Author replied (in litt. December 1979), ‘the Convention aims at protecting all natural habitats, and especially those of threatened species.’—Ed.

** Apart from the EEC (European Economic Community), the countries signing the Convention in Berne were: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and United Kingdom plus Finland.—Ed.