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Parrots,
Parakeets and more
Disease
Takes Wing
James Carroll, in Common Dreams from Boston Globe,
commentary — February
2006
If birds are not a friend to the human
species, where in all of nature is friendship to
be found? Each day come more reports of the dispersal
of diseased poultry and fowl, moving from east to
west, Asia into Europe, and alarms begin to sound...
Parrots
of Telegraph Hill Lose a Favorite Roosting Spot
Cecilia M. Vega, St. Louis Today, feature — November
2005
A property owner whose land includes
the cypress where the parrots are known to perch,
keep an eye on preying hawks and hide their hatchlings
while they hunt for food wants the aging trees gone
because he considers them a liability, neighbors
say...
Wildlife
Crime: On the Trail of a Killer
Ruth Padel, The Independent, feature — July 2005
Wildlife crime is the world's third
largest criminal activity after arms and drugs.
Trade in wild animals and plants is worth $160
billion (£88bn)
a year. A lot of that is illegal. This April, the
UN Crime Congress put wildlife crime on their agenda
for the first time...
Freeing
the Caged Bird
Satya Magazine interview with Eileen McCarthy — November 2004
The captive parrot population is estimated
to be between approximately 12 and 60 million in the
U.S. alone. Consider then, that if only one percent
of 10 million birds become displaced annually, there
are 100,000 “surplus” captive parrots each
year...
Amphibian
Species Imperiled Worldwide:
Global Survey Shows One-Third Threatened
Jane Kay, San Francisco Chronicle, investigation — October 2004
The results of the survey, published today in the journal Science,
show that 1,856 of the known 5,743 species are "globally threatened''
in their forest, stream or underground homes. The delicate creatures, which
have thin, porous skins and need fresh water to stay moist, are faring much
worse around the world than either birds or mammals, the scientists say...
Animal
Trafficking:
A Cruel Billion Dollar Business
Francesca Colombo, Common Dreams, investigation — November 2003
Although legal trade in wildlife is regulated by the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an
estimated one-third of the global sales of 25 billion dollars a year is illegal — an
illicit business surpassed only by arms and drugs trafficking...
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