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Europe faces call to ban imports of wild birds

December 09, 2004 — Filed in: Conservation

Rex Dalton, San Diego Nature 432

African Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) did not survive their transportation © Jan Rodt, Bird Protection Belgium

Rules against avian trade aim to halt disease and conserve wildlife.

More than 200 environmental groups are asking the European Union (EU) to introduce a permanent ban on the importation of wild birds.

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