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Indonesian Parrot Project

Postby Pajarita » Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:17 am

Cockatoo documentary on the Indonesian Parrot Project showing the terrible decimation that poaching causes in the Indonesian Species. They know of, at least, 12,000 toos being taken from the wild every year which has caused one subspecies of sulfur crested, the Abbott, to go down to only 22 individuals in the wild. Indonesia is one of the hubs of poaching and black market birds in the world but the population is not really helping, apparently...

http://canadianbusinesstribune.com/pr/s ... oos/101516
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