OK some people have made constant comparisions of the pet bird industry and the pet fish industry. I wanted to find out for myself what the facts were.
I found this site:
http://www.defenders.org/wbcafact.html
It states that 80% of bird died in transit. Although still appalling not the 99% stated.
Some may use this link to prove that tight controls work becuase of the sucess of The Wild Bird Conservation Act but the comparisons are only skin deep. Although bird importation dropped dramatically and captive bred birds raised dramatically what percentage of species imported were already being captive bred, just not in quantities? I would imagine 80-90% were.
Once our hobby/biz is able to captive breed even 50% of species imported it may be time to truly make comparisions to the pet bird industry and draw from their experience but until then let's compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
I found this site:
http://www.defenders.org/wbcafact.html
It states that 80% of bird died in transit. Although still appalling not the 99% stated.
Some may use this link to prove that tight controls work becuase of the sucess of The Wild Bird Conservation Act but the comparisons are only skin deep. Although bird importation dropped dramatically and captive bred birds raised dramatically what percentage of species imported were already being captive bred, just not in quantities? I would imagine 80-90% were.
Once our hobby/biz is able to captive breed even 50% of species imported it may be time to truly make comparisions to the pet bird industry and draw from their experience but until then let's compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges.