>In second instance we should collect the maximum
>before all things
>get too difficult and too rare. If this trend is
>going on for 30 more
>years, even a tiger cowry will be a rarity.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Guido

That's definitely an original way to deal with
conservation!
If the causes of this decline are not clear enough,
would you really "collect the maximum"? You think
overcollecting is not the cause, but if you were
wrong? Collecting the maximum would mean the
definitive loss of the populations.

Paolo

Paolo G. ALBANO
Bologna, ITALY
Webmaster of Società Italiana di Malacologia website at http://www.sim-online.it

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