Guest guest Posted December 14, 2001 Report Share Posted December 14, 2001 China's First Raptor Rescue Center Opens (Beijing, China - 14 December 2001) - China's first specialized rescue and rehabilitation center for birds of prey officially starts operation today in Beijing. Funded by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) and located on the campus of Beijing Normal University (BNU), the Beijing Raptor Rescue Center (BRRC) is a not-for-profit center aiming to promote the highest standards of animal welfare by incorporating up-to-date technology and best animal husbandry techniques to rescue, care, rehabilitate and release wild raptors. The Beijing Raptor Rescue Center has received certification from the Beijing Forestry Bureau as its " designated raptor rescue facility " . http://oraptprd:22005/ifaw_sites/docs/NEWSRELEASES/FINAL+-+RAPTOR+CENTER+12- 14-01.DOC If you cannot access the IFAW portal, please visit: http://www.ifaw.org/mediacenter.asp for a full listing of IFAW press releases. david camilleri [ghawdex40] Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:16 PM aapn ; birdsofbombay ; john; Jontheo; SavNature; wildbirdSingapore Wild birds in China 4 sale Tristan Reid's mail on the trade in wild birds in China (and it's not only there of course) interested me; but I hadn't got around to responding to it yet. I also wanted time to think about it. Ian Hinze also shed a lot of light on the matter. Tristan also wrote to me privately and I am sure will not mind me quoting him: < ..... > " I realise that PROACT only deals with European (and periphery) countries, but I am sure that some of these countries import these birds trapped in China (this is an assumption). < ..... > Sale restricted to the local market is hardly lucrative enough - and the Chinese have a hard head for business. Perhaps Ian could bring us up to date on the second part? Proact will probably 'go international' as soon as I can get more practical support. We already have coordinators abroad (and a couple of likely targets); but I'm personally booked up in terms of capacity at present. < ..... > " I would be interested if you knew of an organisation that could help put pressure on the Chinese government to try and put a stop to this despicable wild bird trade. " < ..... > A difficult one. I am sure (I know) that we could find organisations in the Far East; but pressurising the Chinese government to do ANYTHING has about as much chance as a fart in a thunderstorm. Without getting deeply political (let's not in this forum) one only has to think about large-scale summary executions, etc,. to get depressed about the survival of nature. And what our politicians will do to get a contract signed... The idea of getting at the clients is a good one though. So lets look at the bird trade _out of China_ Anyone any ideas; or even better, concrete infomation? A bit of help/debate in this forum won't hurt (or activate a 'China' filter - to be on the safe side 'wild birds' ;-) David -- David Conlin Proact, campaigning for birds and their habitats ..... before it's too late www.proactnow.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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