Last year alone, 17,736 magpies were seized from smugglers but it is not known how many birds were successfully smuggled out.
According to a report published by the wildlife trade monitoring network and the department of wildlife and national parks peninsular Malaysia today, 26,950 birds were confiscated between January 2015 and December 2020, with 17,736 seized last year alone, accounting for nearly 66%. The non-governmental organisation said the big local and international demand – particularly from Indonesia — for the songbird has created a worrying situation which could lead to uncontrolled trapping and extinction.
“Malaysian and Indonesian authorities definitively reported that 17,314 birds were smuggled from Malaysia to Indonesia which points to Malaysian populations of the Oriental Magpie-robin being increasingly targeted to feed demand in neighbouring countries, particularly Indonesia,” the report said.“Peninsular Malaysia and Sarawak in particular are clearly implicated as source locations, as well as points of origin for smuggling into neighbouring countries,” the report said.
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