Odp: Extirpation/reintroduction

Zbigniew Witkowski nowitkow at cyf-kr.edu.pl
Mon May 22 06:30:54 EDT 2000


Hello
I have a good news from Poland.
There were two population of apollo butterfly in Polish Carpathians. One of
them in the Tatra Mts was probably extirpated and the other in the Pieniny
Mts was recovered since 1991. We have started fron one population of about
20 adult butterflies. Now after 9 yoears of the project tehre are about 1000
imagoes on more than dozen localities. We still aren't sure that the
population is saved but there is local captive breeding programme.
see on http://botan.ib-pan.krakow.pl/przyroda/index.htm

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    Prof. dr Zbigniew Witkowski
    Institute of Nature Conservation
    Polish Academy of Sciences
    ul. Lubicz 46; 31- 512 Krakow
    e-mail nowitkow at cyf-kr.edu.pl
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U¿ytkownik Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX <Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca> w
wiadomooci do grup dyskusyjnych
napisa³:60F1FEB31CA3D211A1B60008C7A45F43088F2779 at blaze.bcsc.GOV.BC.CA...
> With larger animals there are examples where time and money has been/is
> being spent to reintroduce species to parts of their range where they have
> been extirpated in the past.  A present day example is the Swift Fox on
the
> Canadian prairie (well, whats left of it anyway).  I seem to even vaguely
> recall some efforts along these lines with the Karner Blue.  I would
welcome
> information on this topic for butterflies; and especially any good news
> examples where this has been successful.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
> Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
> 845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
> Phone 250-365-8610
> Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
> http://www.env.gov.bc.ca
>



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