The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied the aviculturists’ petitions as invalid. It said that implementing regulations under the Wild Exotic Bird Conservation Act of 1992 didn’t allow the service to ...

ILLICIT trade in wildlife, mostly native and exotic birds, especially online, worryingly continues to thrive as the ...

An illicit trade in native and exotic birds in the country is thriving online in absence of monitoring as the department of forest officials cite a dearth of human resources and technological and ...

David Osborn/ Shutterstock None of the birds made the journey here under their own power - they were taken from the wild and brought here as exotic pets. As with many animals introduced by the pet ...

The exotic birds are often mistaken for local pets that may have escaped ... from Africa and southern Asia and were kept as pets in the UK. They escaped into the wild and have become naturalised, ...