Venezuela's Birds Smuggled to Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Beyond
Shocking images of dead birds floating in the Caribbean have exposed a thriving illegal wildlife trade between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
In early June, 47 birds died after being thrown overboard by the crew of a boat as it was about to be boarded by the Caribbean island’s coast guard, the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian reported. The birds included Hahn’s macaws, caiques and orange-winged parrots.
The three men, natives of Cedros in Trinidad, were allegedly intending to sell the birds on the island’s black market after they had been poached in Venezuela.
The birds were likely obtained in Delta Amacuro, a Venezuelan state close to Trinidad where poorer Indigenous communities are known to hunt and catch animals at the behest of trafficking rings.
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