Rare Javan Green Magpie At Chester Zoo In Extinction Prevention Attempt

The Javan Green Magpie is facing two enemies that have severely reduced populations in its native forests of Java, Indonesia – habitat loss and poachers who sell the beautiful birds to the cage bird market. Bird experts met at Asia's first Songbird Trade Crisis Summit in October and called on Asian governments to stop the illegal and unsustainable trade that is destroying the region's wild bird populations.