RE: Look who crossed our path this time! Saving 2 lucky Toucans
The birds are beautiful. So sad that they are caught and sold to live in a cage. I really blame the people who are willing to buy these birds, knowing this is illegal. The kids, not so much, because like you said $200 is an amazing amount of money for their family. But people with $200 to spare to buy a bird should be using that money to help someone rather than take a trophy to put in a cage. I was amazed at how calm those birds were while riding in your car. They didn't seem like wild birds at all. I know if a bird accidentally gets into the garage, they go absolutely crazy when you try to help them out. It was almost as if those toucans were drugged. That would probably make them easier for the kids to handle and to sell them. Another shame if that was the case. And they had already clipped their wings? So there was no turning them loose in the wild again. Again, what a shame!
I agree with you. It really sucks there is people wanting to pay that amount of money for that type of "trophy" instead of doing something much better with it.
Birds were not drugged, 1 of them had a elastic band around his beak, the other one was more calm. I think some how they knew they were no longer in danger. The one that was between us, after we try to give him some food, he slowly and softy was touching @evecab's shoulder with his beak, like kind of saying "give me more".
Good news is that today I had a phone call with the Regional Director of the Environmental Department, the toucans are safe and they will keep them until their wings grow back so they can go back to the rain-forest.
Thank you so much for caring and expressing your thoughts.
Yes you are right! It’s not the kids fault it’s the people who are buying them and also the government for not enforcing the law better ... they weren’t drugged (they were pretty agitated when we put them in the car) but after bee drive a few minutes they calmed down
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