Talking parrot under threat
July 06, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation
Peterborough Evening Telegraph, UK
Britain’s most popular talking parrot, the African grey, is under threat, wildlife campaigners have warned.
According to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), numbers of the parrot are declining in the 23 countries in which it is found as a result of the trade in wild birds.
As such trading quotas will have to be reassessed for the third time at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which opens tomorrow.
