Parrots : status survey and conservation action plan 2000-2004
2000
Snyder, Noel |
McGowan, Philip J. K. |
Gilardi, James |
Grajal, Alejandro |
One threat to parrot arises from their attractiveness as "talking" companions to humans, leading to a high demand for trade that involves hundreds of thousands of birds annually on a global basis, and gives parrots a high monetary value. There is an urgent need to change the attitudes of both the many millions who keep parrots, and those who make billions of dollars in trading them.