While the cockatoos are listed under Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES) Appendix 1, which bans their commercial trade, there is a “ gray area where cockatoos can be traded if they’ve come from a captive breeding facility,” says Andersson. “Hong Kong is a thoroughfare for legal wildlife trade – everything from reptile skins to exotic pets, to seafood – and that provides a cover for the illegal wildlife trade as well to operate in parallel,” says Andersson.Īs part of her PhD research, Andersson conducted weekly surveys at Hong Kong’s bird market where she would often see yellow-crested cockatoos for sale. Andersson began researching the yellow-crested cockatoos in 2016, to explore the “multiple issues that impact traded species.”
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