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Good news has finally arrived from the animal kingdom. At this yearS CITES (or Washington Convention) conference held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the delegates voted down the review of the conservation status of the peregrine falcon within the convention. The amendment was initiated by the Canadian government with the support of the USA, claiming that the peregrine falcon population is stable in terms of the world population, so there is no need to keep the species in Appendix I of CITES. This is the highest protection category, which prohibits the international trade of wild-caught specimens of the species listed thereinwhile II.appendage into which the peregrine falcon would have moved, lenables the regulated trade of individuals from nature. Canada has argued that the peregrine falcon is already a “least endangered” species on the IUCN Red List, so wild populations do not require full protection from international trade (farmed specimens could be traded in the past).
But it was in vain supported by II. category,several governments,including countries with falconry traditions such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates,other CITES parties,such as the European Union,pakistan,Iran and Djibouti,argued against it,citing,among other things,the bird flu (H1N5) and the often poor quality background data on which the proposal was based.
61 countries voted in favor of the proposal, 74 against it, and seven abstained. Since a two-thirds majority is required to pass a proposal weakening the protection status, the Canadian proposal was rejected. This result was greatly contributed to by the professional resolution called Animal conservation in a magazine was published,which,in addition to Swedish,Argentinian,Swiss and French researchers,was also noted by a Hungarian specialist,biologist Mátyás Prommer. We talked with him about peregrine falcons, thier vulnerability, and the legal background protecting them.
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The peregrine falcon can be found in almost every region of the Earth, and is one of the six bird species that occurs naturally on all continents, with the exception of Antarctica, and not by chance. The excellent flying species is a specialist in aerial hunting, it catches its prey in the air, consisting primarily of birds, but also bats and insects, so it finds suitable food in all parts of the world. A total of 19 subspecies have been described, of which one is already extinct, another is in a critical situation, on th
Due to the use of the chemical, peregrine falcon populations have entirely disappeared in the eastern part of the United States and drifted to the brink of extinction in the western part, but their numbers have also decreased significantly in Europe.The first international peregrine falcon conservation conference was therefore convened in the United States in 1965, and research began, identifying DDT as the factor responsible for the decline in peregrine falcon populations, and later as a carcinogen.The peregrine falcon was finally added to the US endangered species list in 1970, and DDT was banned worldwide, except for a few countries. Hungary was the first to ban the drug in 1967.
In the decades that followed, falconers and conservation organizations bred falcons in captivity in several countries and then released them as part of reintroduction programs.
With the elimination of DDT and thanks to the efforts of nature conservation programs, the global population of the species has been restored.
Mysterious disappearances at home
We learn from Mátyás prommer that due to the effect of DDT, the peregrine falcon did not nest in Hungary at all between 1964 and 1997. The first breeding pair appeared in 1997, and as then the domestic stock has grown to approximately 150 pairs, which is not considered large, for example, compared to the bald eagle with several hundred pairs or the buzzard with several thousand pairs. Although the situation of the domestic peregrine falcons is stable, it sometimes happens that eggs and chicks are stolen from the nests.Either one or both members of the nesting pair disappear without a trace from the nesting site during the breeding season.
The reason behind such cases is partly the illegal collection – for falconry purposes – and partly the destruction of the birds, because many people do not like predators that also feed on pigeons.
Bird flu has so far avoided the domestic nesting population,probably because they mainly feed on songbird species,which are less affected by the disease. The peregrine falcons living in the coastal areas of northern and western Europe mainly catch waterfowl, and avian influenza has also been confirmed in their range. ”Northern peregrine falcons migrate south in winter, and a dead specimen i
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