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Owls for sale outside a cage at the bird market in Malang, East Java Province, Indonesia on August 14, 2023. Around 75 million birds are kept as pets in Java, threatening to wipe out some wild bird populations. Wild birds are smuggled illegally and traded on the black market to meet the demand for the pet trade, collectors, consumption, belief-based use, and even for bird fighting. Birds are one of the most traded groups with over 3,000 species, a third of all surviving species, reportedly affected by the trade. (Photo by Garry Andrew Lotulung/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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