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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (2074)	12/31/2002 9:18:43 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (2) of 3689

(COMTEX) Drinkers Urged To Use Real Corks To Save Cat Dec 30, 2002 (WENN via COMTEX) -- Drinkers are being urged to sup wine and champagne from bottles with cork stoppers to help save the world's rarest big cat. The cork forests of Spain and Portugal - home of the endangered Iberian lynx - are under threat because of the increasing use of synthetic and screw top stoppers among wine retailers. Falling demand for cork means that it is often more profitable to destroy the animals' woodland homes and replace them with other less environmentally-friendly forms of forestry and agriculture. Latest figures show that there are just 150 Iberian lynx left, with only 30 breeding females. Such is the severity of the situation facing the cat that the IUCN (the World Conservation Union) has upgraded its status to "critically endangered". Cork forests are home to a rich variety of endangered wildlife, including the Iberian imperial eagle in Spain and Portugal and the Barbary deer, in Tunisia. Over 80,000 people depend on the cork industry in the Mediterranean, which helps support a unique mix of agriculture and forestry, and cork stoppers are the economic backbone of the entire forest economy. Corks are made from the bark which is sustainably stripped from the trunks of the trees every nine years. (CS/WNWCAN/CPT) (c) 2002 WORLD ENTERTAINMENT NEWS NETWORK. All global rights reserved. No unauthorised copying or re-distribution permitted. -0- * end of story *

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