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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: ABC Captive breeding plan no cure for lungfish extinction |
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Captive breeding plan no cure for lungfish extinction: expert
Tuesday, 15 May 2007. 09:15 (AEST)Tuesday, 15 May 2007. 09:15 (ACST)Tuesday, 15 May 2007. 06:15 (AWST)
| Quote: | A lungfish expert says a captive breeding program will not stop the species from being pushed to the brink of extinction.
Professor Jean Joss from Macquarie University gave evidence at last week's Senate hearing in Canberra into the Traveston Crossing dam near Gympie in south-east Queensland.
She says the Senate committee suggested a captive breeding program could be set up to compensate for the impact of the dam on the endangered lungfish.
But Professor Joss says it would not work.
"I hope I made it clear to them that that was just crazy. That it was a very useful thing to do for research to have a captive program, but to rely on a captive program for not letting a species go extinct is nothing short of crazy," she said. |
http://abc.net.au/news/items/200705/1922984.htm?sunshine |
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