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[Oversea] 偷運小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡 Smuggling of Yellow-crested Cuckatoo

偷運小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡 Smuggling of Yellow-crested Cuckatoo

剛剛在香港有小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡幼鳥從巢裡被偷走的事件;另一邊廂,印尼海關搜獲二十多隻小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡,牠們都被裝在膠樽裡作掩飾來逃避海關的搜查。這種鸚鵡因為寵物市場龐大的需求,而導致物種的野外數量大幅下降,所以被《世界自然保護聯盟》定為全球瀕危物種,而且在《濒危野生動植物種國際貿易公約》的《附錄一》下是不允許國際買賣。希望大家都提高對這個物種及其他瀕危物種的保護意識,避免助長不法份子用此來牟利,而導致物種絕種。
*網上新聞報導連結:
http://news.sina.cn/2015-05-05/detail-iavxeafs6885925.d.html?from=wap


Recently, we have an illegal case of stealing chicks' of Yellow-crested Cuckatoo from nest in Hong Kong. On the other hand, the Indonesian police just caught people smuggling Yellow-crested Cuckatoo in plastic bottles. This species of cuckatoo is listed as Critically Endangered in the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Red List due to rapid population decline caused by extreme demand in pet trade. It is also listed in Appendix I of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) which does not allow international trading of the species. We hope that the awareness of protecting this cuckatoo and other threatened species can be raised, so as to avoid fuelling the trade which further pushes the species to extinction.  
*Links to the online news articles:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3067691/Smugglers-birds-plastic-bottles-customs.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32595822
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