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Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 August 2009
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- Short Communications: Reports, Comments, News, Notes
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- Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980
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* 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.
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