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Problems in the harvest of edible birds' nests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Journal Biodiversity and Conservation
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0960-3115 (Print) 1572-9710 (Online)
Issue Volume 13, Number 12 / November, 2004
DOI 10.1023/B:BIOC.0000047905.79709.7f
Pages 2209-2226
Subject Collection Biomedical and Life Sciences
SpringerLink Date Monday, January 03, 2005
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Problems in the harvest of edible birds'' nests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Joseph J. Hobbs1

(1) Department of Geography, University of Missouri-Columbia, 8, Stewart Hall, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA (e-mail


Abstract Due to the value of their nests, there is great pressure on the populations of black-nest swiftlets (Collocalia maximus) and white-nest swiftlets (Collocalia fuciphagus) in the Malaysian provinces of Sarawak and Sabah. The problems are particularly acute at Gunung Mulu National Park, in spite of a complete ban on collection there, and at Niah National Park, where every participant in a complex collection and trading system has an incentive to take more nests than permitted. More successful harvest systems function in Sabah''s Gomantong and Madai Caves. Recommendations for improved management of the nest harvest include addressing corruption, ensuring that local people with traditional rights to collect nests do not lose income to illegal immigrant labor and to traders, improving research and education about the swiftlets'' behavior and ecology, and moving value-added processing of the nests closer to the caves where they originate and to the people who collect them.
Birds nests - Borneo - Ethnicity and resource access - Malaysia - Poaching - Swiftlets


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Joseph J. Hobbs
Email: HobbsJ@missouri.edu
Fax: +1-573-884-4239

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