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Warning buying greys


Jane08

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To anyone buying a grey please be careful of an offer by a person from Cameroon who claims to be a breeder and can export them to you. There is a ban on exports of greys from East/Central African countries.

 

Here is a link to a seizure of greys that has taken place: BEWARE, do not go to this link if you are easily upset as some pictures and reading can be disturbing.

 

http://www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/limbewildlifecentre

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Thanks for posting this Jane08.

 

The terrible acts of capturing those wonderful Greys in the wild continue and in huge quantities as the article you provided the link to graphically shows.

 

It is great to see these culprits captured and hopefully severely disciplined and imprisoned. The work these people are doing in health screening, treating and releasing back into the wild is a great and needed work to ensure these Greys do not become extinct in the wild, as they would if the capturing and illegal exporting continues.

 

One other thing to be aware of also in regards Cameroon and surrounding areas. Is the Internet ad's you find find from supposed "Breeders" or "Good Samaritans" in those areas claiming to just want to find a good home for their precious baby. All you need to do is wire the money for them to ship them by "Air" to you no matter where you live in the world. We all know that it is illegal to export Greys to the States and other places in the world and normally not fall for such an obvious scam. But, persons looking for their first Parrot do not and fall victims to these thieves constantly.

 

Again, thanks for posting this Jane! :-)

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