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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20011004c1.htm

 

Pair caged in smuggling of rare parrots

 

NAGOYA (Kyodo) Two men were arrested Wednesday on

suspicion of illegally importing and selling parrots

banned from commercial trade under an international

conservation convention on endangered species, police

said.

 

The police identified the two as Atsuhiko Shibata, 34,

a dealer in animals who lives in Aichi Prefecture, and

Koki Higashi, 35, who works in the fishing industry

and is a resident of Mie Prefecture.

 

The two are suspected of smuggling from the

Philippines 12 birds, including Hyacinth Macaws

(Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) between February last

year and late January this year in violation of the

Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law and a

law on preservation of species, according to police.

 

Two Hyacinth Macaws were sold to a Hyogo Prefecture

resident for about 3.9 million yen, police said.

 

Trade in Hyacinth Macaws is banned by the Convention

on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild

Fauna and Flora. They are the world's largest macaws,

standing about 1 meter tall, and are native to Brazil.

 

Shibata and Higashi claimed in import documents that

the parrots were for a zoo run by an acquaintance,

police said.

 

The smuggled macaws were discovered following a raid

last month and are now being kept at a zoo in Nagoya,

they said.

 

The Japan Times: Oct. 4, 2001

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