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08 DEC

Chronicle of a foreseeable tragedy: birds' nests management in the Niah caves (Sarawak).

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Source: Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Publication Date: 01-AUG-04
Author: Gausset, Quentin

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Chronicle of a foreseeable tragedy: birds’ nests management in the Niah caves (Sarawak).

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INTRODUCTION

The exploitation of birds’ nests as food has a long history, dating back to the sixteenth century. Its trade from Borneo to China was already in existence when Dutch merchants began operating in the Malaysian and Indonesian region (Cranbrook, 1984, p. 150; Koon and Cranbrook, 2002, pp. 64-65). The nests are made out of the saliva and feathers of swiftlets. Once processed to remove the feathers, the nests are consumed in soups that are believed by many people (mainly Chinese) to have rejuvenating and cosmetic virtues. In Malaysia there are two main species of birds that produce edible nests: Aerodramus fuciphagus (producing the highly valued white nests) and Aerodramus maximus (producing black nests) (Koon and Cranbrook, 2002, pp. 2-16). They inhabit limestone caves, such as the Niah caves, which are the object of this study. In the Niah cave, the exploitation of black nests began fairly recently, less than 200 years ago (Harrisson and Jamuh, 1956; Koon and Cranbrook, 2002, p. 68; Medway, 1958). It soon became a major center of black nest production, which peaked at 18,500 kg per year in 1931 (i.e., 70% of the total production of black nests in the state of Sarawak; Cranbrook, 1984, p. 155). The fame of the Niah cave owes a lot to this huge production of nests, and also to the archeological discovery of the oldest human remains in South-East Asia (Harrisson, 1958). To protect this unique archeological site, the caves were made into a national heritage site under the authority of the Sarawak Museum, and later into a national park under the authority of the National Parks’ administration. Recently, the swiftlets have become a protected species.
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07 DEC

Fouling the nest


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Christianity and the environment
by Carl Wieland
‘What should we think of the Greenhouse Effect?’ AiG speakers often face questions like this on environmental matters. It is helpful, even vital, to view such things from a Biblical perspective. But in a complex world, it may not be possible to give a rigidly ‘for’ or ‘against’ Christian response. Biblical principles are unchanging, but the situations we face, and the information available, are not.
Imagine you are a bureaucrat in 19th-century South America, contemplating the vast, seemingly limitless expanse of the Amazon jungle. Some poor villagers ask you for a permit to clear an acre for their crops. Or you’re the same bureaucrat in the distant future; some rich estate-owner asks if he can clear one of the last remaining stands of Amazonian trees, home of some of the rarest and most beautiful of God’s creatures, because they obstruct the breeze to his mansion. Presumably your response would be different in each case!
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06 DEC

Associations of Cave Swallows with Cliff and Barn Swallows


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THE CONDOR Vol. 64 Associations of Cave Swallows with Clilf and Barn Swallows.-Selander and Baker (Condor, 59, 1957:345-363) found no instances of Cave Swallows (PetrocheZidon fulva) and Cliff Swallows (PetrocLelidon pyrrhonota) associating in Texas and suggested that where the two species are sym- patric, as in Texas and New Mexico, nesting of f&a is restricted to caves by competition with Pyr- rhonota.
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06 DEC

The edible Bird's-nest, or Nest of the Java Swift (Collocalia Nidifica)

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J. R. Green
THE EDIBLE BIRD’S-NEST, OR NEST OF THE JAVA SWIFT (COLLOCALIA NIDIFICA). BY J. R. GREEN, B. Sc., B.A., Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. THE swifts as a family are remarkable for certain peculiarities in the construction of their nests, fastening together the materials they use by a peculiar kind of secretion. The nest of the common swift of our own country has at -least its innermost layer so agglutinated. Collocalia faciphaga, according to Bernsteiin, fastens together in this way the whole of the structure. Perhaps the nmost interesting of the whole genus is C. nidifica, a species met with in Java and Borneo, concerning the construction of whose habitation much controversy has taken place. This species produces the so-called edible bird’s-nest, a delicacy long leld in high esteem by the Chinese and lately brought into prominence in England through the Health Exhibition at South Kensington last year.
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05 DEC

Firm allowed to delay bird's nest duty payment

Bangkok Post, Thailand – 7 hours ago Phatthalung _ Phatthalung governor Suthep Komolpamorn has granted a concessionaire’s request to put off payment of edible bird’s nest duty due to falling sales as a result of the bird flu scare. The province agreed last week to give Siam Nest Co a reprieve as the bird flu scare had […]

04 DEC

Structure of the monosialyl oligosaccharides derived from salivary gland mucin glycoproteins of the Chinese swiftlet (genus Collocalia). Characterization of novel types of extended core structure, Gal beta(1– –3)[GlcNAc beta(1—-6)] GalNAc alpha(1—-3)GalNAc(-ol), and of chain termination, [Gal alpha(1—-4)]0-1[Gal beta(1—-4)]2GlcNAc beta(1—- .)

jbc.org JM Wieruszeski, JC Michalski, J Montreuil, G Strecker, J Peter-Katalinic, H Egge, H van Halbeek, JH Mutsaers and JF Vliegenthart The mucus glycoproteins, the so-called nest-cementing substance, from the salivary gland of Chinese swiftlets (genus Collocalia) are mainly constituted of sialic acid-rich O-glycosylproteins. Alkaline reductive treatment of the crude material led to the release […]