AR-News: (Japan) 300 protected birds confiscated from poachers

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

About 300 protected birds including Japanese white eyes and meadow buntings 
were delivered to a rehabilitation cage in Tokyo between November and December 
last year after being confiscated from poachers, it has been learned. 
Police have recently clamped down on poachers, who continue to catch 
protected birds to sell to bird shops or over the Internet.
Among the types of birds brought to the rehabilitation cage in Ome, western 
Tokyo, were the Japanese white eye, the meadow bunting, the Eurasian siskin, 
the varied tit, the Eurasian bullfinch, the Japanese grosbeak, and the coal tit, 
whose capture is forbidden.

full story:

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040204p2a00m0dm003000c.html

 


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