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Letter: For the record

Published 5 August 2009

• The total costs for the purchase and ongoing management of land in Sabah, Malaysia, that would link fragments of the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary is over $566,000, double what we stated (25 July, p 8), and negotiations to buy it are not yet complete.

• The US Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate wishes to make it clear that the new antenna in our report on microwave weapons (25 July, p 21) will not necessarily be used in the airborne version of the Active Denial System.

• Fiona Maisels is the surveys and monitoring adviser for the Wildlife Conservation Society in central Africa, not its coordinator (25 July, p 34).

• The German V-1 flying bomb used a pulse-jet engine, rather than the similar pulse detonation engine as we stated (25 July, p 30).

Issue no. 2720 published 8 August 2009

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