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President To be elected
Vice-Presidents E. O. A. Asibey (Ghana) Sir David Attenborough CBE FRS (UK) David Bellamy (UK) Gerard A. Bertrand (USA) Lt Col C. L. Boyle OBE (UK) Mervyn Cowie CBE ED (Kenya) Ralph Daly OBE (Sultanate of Oman) Gerald Durrell OBE (UK) Maisie Fitter (UK) Richard Fitter (UK) Grenville Lucas OBE (UK) Academician V. E. Sokolov (USSR) Lee M. Talbot (USA)
Chairman David M. Jones
Honorary Treasurer and Secretary Edward Wright MBE
Council Bruce Coleman Mark Collins Lee Durrell
Tony Elisher Edward Hoare Angela Horsman David Macdonald Noel McGough William Oliver Professor Paul Racey Barry Thomas Piers Trehane Roger Wheater OBE P. Wyse Jackson
Editor of Oryx Jacqui Morris
Editorial Board Pat Morris (Chairman) Richard H. V. Bell John A. Burton Kathleen Blanchard Bruce Coleman Gordon B. Corbet Lee Durrell S. K. Eltringham R. D. Estes Maisie Fitter Joshua R. Ginsberg Terry E. Graham Brian Groombridge
Nicholas Hammond Chris Humphries A. M. Hutson Brian Jackman Alison Jolly Richard Luxmoore Jeffrey McNeely T. R. New John E. Newby John F. Oates Anthony B. Rylands John B. Sale John Sparks Simon Stuart Timothy A. Sullivan R. I. Vane-Wright Maureen Whalen Edward Wright Christopher H. S. Watts
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Volume 27 1993 Pages 1-262
Blackwell Scientific Publications OXFORD LONDON EDINBURGH BOSTON
MELBOURNE PARIS BERLIN VIENNA
Invasive Melastomataceae in Seychelles Justin Gerlach 22
Elephants and ivory poaching in the forests of equatorial Africa R. F W. Barnes, M. Agnagna, M. P. T. Alers, A. Blom, G. Doungoube, M. Fay, T. Masunda, J. C. Ndo Nkoumou, C. Sikubwabo Kiyengo and M. Tchamba 27
Lemurs in Bemaraha (World Heritage Landscape, Western Madagascar) Nasolo Rakotoarison, Thomas Mutschler and Urs Thalmann 35
Cloud rats in the Philippines - preliminary report on distribution and status W. L. R. Oliver, C. R. Cox, P. C. Gonzales and L. R. Heaney 41
Short Communications Conservation of the cherry salmon in Taiwan Yeong-Tyi Day, Yao-Sung Lin and Kun-Hsiung Chang 49 The clouded leopard in Assam Anwaruddin Choudhury 51 Problems of wild elephant translocation D. K. Lahiri-Choudhury 53 Monkey business in Gibraltar Helen O'Leary 55
Book reviews 58
Briefly 70
The reintroduction of the Andean condor into Colombia, South America: 1989-1991 Alan Lieberman, Jose Vicente Rodriguez, Juan Manuel Paez and Jim Wiley 83
Yemen's rhino horn trade increases Lucy Vigne and Esmond Bradley Martin 91
Promising future for an elephant population - a case study in Burkina Faso West Africa Theophane E. Damiba and Ernest D. Abies 97
Biotope and distribution of Blanford's fox Eli Geffen, Reuven Hefner, David Macdonald and Michael Ucko 104
Two endemic viverrids of the Western Ghats, India N. V. K. Ashraf, A. Kumar and A. J. T. Johnsingh 109
Conservation of biological diversity in the Dominican Republic Andreas Schubert 115
Book reviews 122
FFPS News 128
FFPS News 62
Briefly 133
Threatened primates in southern Vietnam Jonathan C. Lames and Craig R. Robson 146
Status of white-necked picathartes - another reason for the conservation of the Peninsula Forest, Sierra Leone Hazell S. S. Thomspon 155
The conservation status of the yellow- footed rock-wallaby in Queensland Gregory Gordon, Peter McRae, Leong him, Darryl Reimer and Gary Porter 159
Tanzanian coastal forests - new information on status and biological importance Neil D. Burgess, Alex Dickinson and Nicholas H. Payne 169
Sibuyan Island in the Philippines - threatened and in need of conservation S. M. Goodman and N. R. Ingle 174
Status of the West Indian snake Chironius vincenti Robert W. Henderson and Gary T. Haas 181
Short Communications Traditional and modern wildlife conservation in Malawi - the need for an integrated approach Simon M. Munthali 185
Book reviews 188
Briefly 199
Three new mountain national parks for Uganda Thomas M. Butynski and Jan Kalina 214
How caimans protect fish stocks in western Brazilian Amazonia - a case for maintaining the ban on caiman hunting Carlos A. Peres and Anina M. Carkeek 225
A new look at the Himalayan fur trade Joel T. Heinen and Blair Leisure 231
Bilkis gazelle in Yemen - status and taxonomic relationships Arnaud Greth, Douglas Williamson, Colin Groves, Georg Schwede and Marc Vassart 239
Khao Sam Roi Yot - one of the world's most threatened parks John W. K. Parr, Narong Mahannop and Vatid Charoensiri 245
FFPS News 250
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President The Rt Hon. Lord Craigton, PC, CBEt
Vice-Presidents E. A. O. Asibey (Ghana) Sir David Attenborough CBE FRS (UK) David Bellamy (UK) Gerard A. Bertrand (USA) Lt Col C. L. Boyle OBE (UK) Mervyn Cowie CBE ED (Kenya) Ralph Daly OBE (Sultanate of Oman) Gerald Durrell OBE (UK) Maisie Fitter (UK) Richard Fitter (UK) Grenville Lucas OBE (UK) Academician V. E. Sokolov (USSR) Lee M. Talbot
Chairman David M. Jones
t Died in July 1993
Council Bruce Coleman Mark Collins Lee Durrell Tony Elisher Edward Hoare Angela Horsman David Macdonald Noel McGough William Oliver Paul Racey Barry Thomas Piers Trehane Roger Wheater OBE P. Wyse Jackson
Editor of Oryx Jacqui Morris
Editorial Board of Oryx Pat Morris (Chairman) Richard H. V. Bell John A. Burton Kathleen Blanchard Bruce Coleman Gordon B. Corbet Lee Durrell S. K. Eltringham R. D. Estes Maisie Fitter Joshua R. Ginsberg Terry Graham Brian Groombridge Nicholas Hammond Chris Humphries A. M. Hutson Brian Jackman Alison Jolly Richard Luxmoore Jeffrey McNeely T. R. New John E. Newby John F. Oates Anthony B. Rylands John B. Sale John Sparks Simon Stuart Timothy A. Sullivan R. I. Vane-Wright Maureen Whalen Edward Wright Christopher H. S. Watts
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