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Date: 13th April 2019
Time: 11.00 am
Venue: MNS HQ Auditorium
Southeast Asia is home to over 850 avian species, and keeping birds as pets is desirable for their song, their beauty, cultural beliefs, and a multitude of reasons. Sadly, this high demand and volume for domestic and international bird trade, involving hundreds of species and thousands of individual birds, has resulted in many sought-after species are facing dramatic declines. This talk will give an overview of the scale of the trade across Southeast Asia and more specifically in Malaysia. It will also highlight some of the species most affected by the trapping and trade, and share conservation efforts being taken to mitigate the threat to our precious birds.
Ms Serene Chng is the programme officer at TRAFFIC Southeast Asia Regional office. TRAFFIC is the wildlife trade monitoring network, which is the leading non-governmental organization working globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.