Feeding wild birds is a popular hobby globally, but it presents invisible disease risks to the very birds that we are feeding — but there are ways to safeguard their health. Adult male European ...

Ari and Junianto began hunting birds as children in the foothills of Java’s Mount Slamet, near their home in Sambirata village. Trapping birds for the illegal wildlife trade became their main ...

BANYUMAS, Indonesia — As youngsters, Ari and Junianto would clamber over the upland above Sambirata village, gathering sap to glue-trap the birds nesting below Java’s Mount Slamet. “If it gets wet ...

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