Harry Potter may have sparked illegal owl trade in Indonesia

Mongabay
Jul 3, 2017, 3:09 am148 ptsTrending
The Harry Potter books and movies seem to have fueled a dramatic rise in the number of owls being traded as pets in Indonesia, a new study concludes. In the past, conservationists have suggested that the popularity of the fictional mail-delivering owls in the Harry Potter books may have caused an uptick in the…

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