From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15703 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, March 12 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15703 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 70%OFF.sale-The.best.translator.ever! ["Translator" Subject: 70%OFF.sale-The.best.translator.ever! 70%OFF.sale-The.best.translator.ever! http://livelong.ru.com/gvMpZ7RLq_5thUrN2nEBzDngAB9Woem0JkNfWmY2MxRVwsPuCg http://livelong.ru.com/UsGzCJTyNyq1QXJVzksStLAPeQ4WtoO4spFcrxEb8Y1PEg766Q ial times, the population was estimated to be between 175 and 325 breeding pairs. This small population was most likely caused by deforestation in the 18th century and by cyclones. However, the most severe decline was in the 1950s and 1960s due to indiscriminate DDT use and invasive species like cats, mongooses, and crab-eating macaques which killed the kestrels and their eggs. What was probably this species' closest relative in Recent times, the RC)union kestrel, became extinct in the 1670s. The quasi-extinction of the kestrel was noted by Mauritian naturalists Jean Vinson and France Staub, and it came to the attention of the American falcon expert Tom Cade, who, in the early 1970s, corresponded with the Conservator of Forests Leo Edgerly and they explored the idea of saving the Mauritius kestrels. Tom Cade had recently learned how to breed falcons in captivity and had bred American Kestrels and felt that similar approaches could be used to breed Mauritius Kestrels, and then to release the birds to the wild to bolster the population. Working with international conservation organisations (World Wildlife Fund and the International Council for Bird Preservation) and with the Mauritius Forestry Department a conservation project was hatched for the Mauritius Kestrel in 1973. The initial work was done by one of Cadebs students, Stanley Temple, who studied them in the wild and started the captive breeding project. The recorded population subsequently dropped to an all-time low of only four individ ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15703 ***********************************************