Study Raises Questions About S�pore�s Wild Bird Trade, Urges Action

SATURDAY CRIME NIGHT � STUDY RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT SINGAPORE�S ROLE IN WILD BIRD TRADE

A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and TRAFFIC has underlined Singapore�s role as a leading transit hub for birds from Africa and Europe to East Asia and the Middle East, and highlights serious discrepancies in the way this trade has been recorded over a decade.

The study is the first of its kind that describes Singapore�s prominent involvement in the trade in birds listed in CITES Appendix I and II based on Wildlife Conservation Society government data. Notably, it also emphasises trade record discrepancies.

The study found Singapore to have imported specimens from 212 bird species listed in Appendices I and II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) from 2005 to 2014. Close to 86,000 birds traded could not be accounted for after they arrived in Singapore. Birds that are not re-exported are presumed to have entered the domestic market, but the scale of the discrepancy suggests this is unlikely.

The discrepancy warrants further investigation as the inability to effectively monitor movement of species such as the African grey parrot �fundamentally undermines� CITES, an international agreement to ensure trade does not threaten wildlife species with extinction. This leaves potential loopholes for illegal trade, said Mr. Colin Poole of the Wildlife Conservation Society, the study�s co-author.

Read more here: http://www.traffic.org/home/2016/4/18/singapores-wild-bird-trade-raises-troubling-questions-about.html/

Actively do your part to end the bird trade. A little help goes a long way for the animals. Do not buy wild animals as pets. Appreciate them in the wild.

Be vigilant and report cases of wildlife crime to the ACRES Animal Crime Investigation Unit (ACIU) at acrescrime@gmail.com

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