Clampdown for Grey Parrot trade
December 06, 2006 — Filed in: Conservation
CITES, the international Convention governing trade in threatened species, has recommended a two-year ban from January 2007 on exports of Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus from four West African countries (Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea), where the distinctive (sub)species timneh is found, and two Central African countries (Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea), where the more widespread (sub)species erithacus occurs. Only two countries - Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo - should be permitted to continue exporting Grey Parrots after January 2007, although their quotas should be halved to 4,000 and 5,000 birds respectively.
