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<div>Thank you for accepting my message (see below):</div>
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<div><strong><font color="#000000">Dear Colleagues Interested with Invasive Alien Freshwater Snails,</font></strong></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">The golden apple snail (one of the 100 World's Worst IAS listed in IUCN/GISN/ISSG databases) is known in the USA as Channeled Apple Snail (CAS). The golden apple snail (GAS) book launching will formally be on the PhilRice Anniversary day (November 6, 2006). In this book there are three chapters by Dr. Robert Cowie, UH, USA.
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<div><font color="#000000">Please also see the link to the golden apple snail book at the PhilRice website.<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please note that using the acronym GAS for the Giant African Snail is confusing. GAS is used for only Golden Apple Snail (GAS),
<em>Pomacea caniculata. </em>This freshwater snail is a major pest of wetland/paddy taro and other aquatic plants in </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hawaii</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
and other places. </span></font></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span><strong><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font color="#000000"><u><span name="st">PhilRice</span> website link
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.philrice.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=139" target="_blank">
<strong>http://www.philrice.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=104&Itemid=139</strong></a></span></font><strong></strong></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Please announce the book on the golden apple snail to your colleagues who have interest on snails. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Thanks once again. </font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Regards.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><strong>Dr. R. C. Joshi</strong><br>Chief Science Research Specialist<br>Office of the Executive Director<br>Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice)<br>Maligaya, Science City of Muņoz, Nueva Ecija 3119
<br>Philippines <br>Telefax: +63-44-4560112 <br>Alternate E-mail: </font><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://us.f542.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=joshiraviph@gmail.com&YY=99458&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=down&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b" target="_blank">
<span></span><font color="#000000">joshiraviph@gmail</font></a></div></div><br><br> </div>
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