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Neighbours denounce killing and trading Parakeets

June 03, 2007 — Filed in: Conservation

Elcordillerano.com

Cachaña (Enicognathus ferrugineus) picture from elcordillerano.com

People from 130 Viviendas (Province of Neuquén, Argentina) are angry because of the cruelty with which local children enjoy a bloody spectacle. One of the neighbours said that the ones that fall but do not die, are sold.

“This has been turned into a butchery”, commented a 130 Viviendas local angrily, bewilderedly reporting about the indiscriminate killing of parakeets in the neighbourhood.

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