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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

10,000 Birds

Great Green Macaw digiscoped at the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras For many centuries throughout the world mankind has kept birds as pets. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. Also, no one should have birds as pets. In some parts of the country it is already illegal to have slingshots.

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Africa’s endangered species

10,000 Birds

The reasons that these ten have been selected is to illustrate some of the myriad reasons that Africa’s birds are being driven to extinction; from commercial overfishing, powerline collisions, illegal trade, poisoning, traditional medicine usage, overgrazing and conversion of specialized habitats into agricultural land.