The international trade in parrots is a lucrative enterprise, and forms an important part of the international wildlife trade. As parrots have become increasingly endangered, many countries have placed restrictions on the trade and/or prohibited the trade altogether. Despite the restriction on trade in many countries however, the market still operates both legally and illegally. A big factor that attempts to keep the control in international trade is CITES. The Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora was established in 1975, and consists of 184 parties which includes 183 countries along with the European Union. CITES offers three different degrees of protection for around 38,000 species around the world.[1]
Approximately 2,600 of the more than 9,600 bird species in existence are subject to trade,[2]: 3 and 20% of these species belong to the order Psittaciformes (parrots).[2]: 3 In 2009, 3.9% of households in the United States owned birds, which equated to 11,199,000 pet birds in total,[3] and 75% of these belonged to the Psittaciforme order.[3]: 77
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^ abFAO. 2011. Trade in Wild Birds and Related Bird Movements in Latin America and the Caribbean Animal Production and Health Paper No. 166. Rome.
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