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THE BATTALION
MONDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1979
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Fish and
Wildlife Service is about to take the
first step toward lifting a decade-old
ban on international trade in Ameri
can alligator products.
Officials said agency director
Lynn Greenwalt is expected to sign
papers this week recommending
that the status of American alligators
be changed on the international en
dangered species list.
The United States will make the
recommendation at a March 19-30
meeting in Costa Rica of 47 nations
that signed an agreement on trade
in endangered species. A majority
agrees to the alligator status change.
Currently, the American alligator
is ranked with animals or plants
about to become extinct. That clas
sification bars virtually all export.
The United States wants the al
ligator transferred to a category for
species that can be exported as long
as the exporting nation believes the
sale will not jeopardize the species
or its foreign cousins.
William Brown, executive direc
tor of the U.S. Endangered Species
Authority, said he believed the bulk
of the legal harvest of alligators
would be sent overseas.
“Once an alligator hide is tanned,
it is very difficult to determine
whether it came from an American
alligator or a Nile crocodile or other
species, some of which are very en
dangered,” Brown said.
The U.S. alligator population is
estimated at about 800,000. In 1977,
about 75 percent of the alligators
were reclassified from the U.S. en
dangered list, meaning their exis
tence is threatened, to the less re
strictive threatened species list,
which means the species may be
come endangered in the future.
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The “other” fountains of the University’s
Memorial Student Center shimmer patterns
of light Saturday night. The fountains are in
the courtyard between the Center's main
building and the Board of Regents meeting
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