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Aussie researchers help to highlight problem of illegal trade in parrots

High demand for parrots as pets, and their removal from the wild for the trade, have significantly contributed to their severe decline, study finds.

Mike Simpson by Mike Simpson
23-05-2021 03:00
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Image by edmondlafoto from Pixabay

‘Pretty’ parrots are more likely to be snatched up for Indonesia’s illegal wildlife trade, a new study involving the Australian National University in Canberra has revealed.

The findings not only expose the key drivers behind the country’s illegal trade in these birds, but offer lessons for the potential emergence and spread of infectious diseases that jump from animals to humans – such as Covid and avian flu.

Researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) and other organisations analysed two decades-worth of data on the illegal trade of parrots in Southeast Asia. Their study has just been published in the journal Biological Conservation.

They found several key reasons parrots were at risk of being taken from the wild – with a bird’s attractiveness and the ability to sell it on legal markets being two main motivations for the trade.

One third of species threatened with extinction

“High demand for parrots as pets, and their removal from the wild for the trade, have significantly contributed to their severe decline worldwide,” co-author Professor Rob Heinsohn from ANU said.

“One-third of the nearly 400 parrot species are threatened by extinction today. But while the trade is vast, not every parrot species is at equal risk of being traded.”

The team used a popular criminological model to analyse the factors associated with traded parrots in Indonesia, the country shown to be most in need of parrot conservation.

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They found several key factors were good indicators of trade variation: whether it was possible to legally export the parrot species; the attractiveness of the species, including its colour, brightness, size and ability to mimic sounds; and whether the species lived in an area of high human population density.

Global preference for particular parrot species

“This suggests that demand and opportunity-based factors together can partially explain the illegal parrot trade in Indonesia,” lead author, Professor Stephen Pires from Florida International University in the US, said.

“It indicates people are targeting attractive species that are easier to sell in [legal] markets, and that there is a cross-cultural preference for particular parrot species, especially ones that have been historically overexploited.”

The overlap between the domestic and international trade of certain Indonesian parrot species suggests a high number of wild-caught birds are mislabelled as ‘captive-bred’ so they can be legally exported.

“More efficient law enforcement is needed urgently,” Professor Heinsohn said. “Further strategies to reduce the trade of parrots could take the form of nest protection, as well as educational campaigns targeting children and consumers.”

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