I bring to your attention a recent event in the Phillipines via Grrl
Scientist;
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/07/
birds_in_the_news_91_v3n18.php
Original; http://www.mindanews.com/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=2823&Item
Summary: Philippines authorities capture bird smuggler. Then out of
an irrational fear of Avian Influenza, they destroy hundreds of wild-
caught birds, rather than rehabilitating them.
As information supplied in the blog's comments from Phillip Metz
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2007/07/
birds_in_the_news_91_v3n18.php#comment-501996 and see also
http://www.indonesian-parrot-project.org/
"What does not seem to me appropriate (or scientific) is the repeated
decision to kill these birds merely out a fear that they might harbor
H5N1-AI."
What's the point of protecting smuggled parrots if the wild
population is going to be destroyed when the smuggling is
intercepted? As an individual, what can I do about this practice?
Write the embassy? Is there anything further that we can do about it?
thank you for your attention
scot
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