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Article: Island species tend to be neglected
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- The Sunday Observer
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Colombo, Feb. 1 -- The correct classification of a species is more important for conservation of that particular species than one may think, since conservation measures depend on the status of the species. In which case the ramifications of an insufficiently clarified taxonomic status could be just as worse as extinction.
The Mountain Hawk Eagle is distributed in the Himalayas of Pakistan to western China, Japan, Western Ghats of south-western India and the hills of Sri Lanka. Since 1931 the Sri Lankan and Southern Indian taxon Nisaetus kelaarti has remained a subspecies of the Mountain Hawk Eagle - Nisaetus nipalensis.
However, when the first Mountain Hawk Eagle was discovered from Sri ...