A captive Straw-headed Bulbul Pycnonotus zeylanicus, popular in Asian areas © TRAFFIC
hunted due to their track
Asian songbirds reach crisis point. Interest in a wide selection of songbirds throughout Southeast Asia has led to a madness of illegal trapping and trade that is unsustainable supply interest in them as caged birds.
The incessant trapping of redtube songbirds is causing woodlands that have been when filled up with track to slowly develop quiet. It has driven some types just like the Straw-headed Bulbul to extinction that is local. In nations including Indonesia, Viet Nam and Singapore they’ve been bought and entered into performing competitions. Some types of songbirds for instance the White-rumped Shama fetch an increased cost if sourced through the crazy. Our company is using conservationists, local governments and campaigners to prevent the unmitigated plunder of those valuable animals.
over 70,000
wild birds were recently seen in trade across SE bird that is asian
wild wild birds had been discovered accessible in stores in Singapore more than a four survey day
of bird types discovered easily obtainable in Viet Nam are not susceptible to any trade settings
Java Sparrow
are very nearly extinct in the open as a result of over-trapping and unlawful trade
all current crazy folks are due to reintroduction after capture that is decimating trade
Prohibited trapping of wild wild wild birds is bringing silence to nearly all Asia’s rainforests. It’s nevertheless perhaps perhaps not far too late to truly save the song that is last but we must work fast
Serene Chng, Programme Officer – Pets and Fashion
hope is based on collaboration
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