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 TradeWild Pets and Laboratory Animals: BirdsEnormous numbers of wild birds are captured for the cage bird trade. The Environmental Investigation Agency conducted a field research project in Senegal in which they documented the capture of as many as 20 million wild birds, mainly finches. EIA’s films and research of the trapping of wild birds in Senegal and Argentina revealed that 50 percent or more die of shock or injury prior to export. The birds are traumatized by the capture and often injure themselves trying to escape; few receive humane care and proper nutrition. In fact, EIA found birds held prior to shipping to export centers in unsanitary, crowded conditions, and cared for by people with little or inadequate knowledge about their feeding and care, causing considerable mortality in the first days after capture. In Senegal, EIA filmed the transport of thousands of these birds to export centers hundreds of miles away, in the tropical heat, crammed into cages strapped to the tops of the buses. At stops, the dead and dying birds were thrown out along the side of the road.Page 1 (United States) Page 2 (Indonesia) Page 3 (South America) Page 4 (North America) Page 5 (Latin America and Asia) Page 6 (Indictment of Tony Silva) |
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