Trapping holds back speed of bird recovery in a Sumatran forest, study shows

Mongabay
May 11, 2023, 3:59 am145 pts
JAKARTA — A decade of protection and natural regeneration of tropical forests has helped bird populations increase in the southern lowlands of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, but continued wild trapping by poachers is preventing a speedier recovery, a new study shows. Wild populations of birds at the Harapan…

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