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Last month, Kalianda District Court (South Lampung, Sumatra) sentenced four bird smugglers to eight months in prison and fined 2,000,000IDR each for attempting to smuggle hundreds of #songbirds from Sumatra to Java.
https://t.co/mcjQOqw56t
More than 8,000 #songbirds were seized in #Indonesia within the second quarter of 2022. Check out the images in this post for more details.
We thank @TRAFFIC_WLTrade for providing us with these data from open-source media reports from TRAFFIC’s WiTIS database.
#songbirdtrade
541 White-rumped #Shamas were seized in Malaysia on May 30. The birds were found in 32 crates inside a car. It is suspected that the #birds had been #smuggled from Thailand: https://t.co/DcRhJMtuNJ
More details: https://t.co/zPOALIKmLj
@TRAFFIC_WLTrade @kanithak_ @Cshepherd7R
'Trading Faces' study by @TRAFFIC_WLTrade revealed that Red-whiskered Bulbuls account for 28% of Singapore's thriving live bird trade on #Facebook. This species is highly popular in local bird song competitions: https://t.co/IqaTnrWTuX
#bulbul #songbird #wildlifetrade
We are excited to announce that Creature Conserve will be doing the Asian Songbird Trade Theme Week on their social media. Starting from May 31, they will be posting art about the Asian Songbird Crisis and share artists' statements on their Instagram: https://t.co/jp9Ea7QwBl
Creature Conserve invites #artists to participate in a workshop aiming to visualise, communicate and collaborate around the theme of the Asian #songbird trade. ASTSG member Serene Chng will be co-teaching this workshop: https://t.co/29cp4sqkLJ
#art by Tom Henderson
#artandscience