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They are also by far the birds smuggled across the border throughout the US. most popular of cage birds—so much avoid both customs duty and the cost By the time Newcastle Disease was so that parrot populations in the wild (up to $80 a bird) of compulsory diagnosed these shipments had taken have plummeted and many parrot quarantining. So smuggling brings a place. The Department of Agriculture, species are now rare. Rarity, of course, nice profit. But smuggling also brings which supervises the quarantine pro- adds to the value of a species and Exotic Newcastle Disease. gram for imported birds, then had the makes it all the more sought after. For This avian disease is highly con- task of tracing recipients. By late animal dealers an animal's path from tagious and usually fatal. In wild birds October 29,752 birds had been rare to endangered to extinct is paved it may be dormant, erupting only euthanized to prevent the disease from with gold. under stress. Most probably the erup- spreading to poultry. If parrot species are to survive, the tion of last August started in smuggled Outbreaks of Newcastle Disease oc- major bird-trading nations will have to cage birds which were sent to a dealer cur almost every year. Invariably impose strict controls. Happily most of in Miami. There, while incubating the smuggled birds are the cause. As a the large bird-importing countries, now disease, they came into contact with result tens of thousands of cage birds Continued on back page Sth Kr bjt Sou Korea has ie an objection to the IWC's prohibition on killing great whales with 'cold' harpoons. The ex- treme and wholly unnecessary cruelty of using such primitive weapons is the reason for the ban adopted by an over- whelming majority at the IWC annual meeting last July (see previous In- formation Report). The objection means that the United States could invoke the Pelly Amend- ment and the Packwood-Magnuson Ainendment. 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