Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pakistan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pakistan</span></a>'s 4 wild <a href="https://beige.party/tags/parakeet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parakeet</span></a> species have suffered precipitous <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PopulationDecline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PopulationDecline</span></a> in recent decades, with their current numbers a mere fragment of what they used to be, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> expert Anis Rehman tells <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Anadolu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anadolu</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanBehavior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanBehavior</span></a> is mostly to blame for their decline into locally <a href="https://beige.party/tags/endangered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>endangered</span></a> status, as local communities and others have engaged in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/poaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poaching</span></a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/trafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trafficking</span></a> of the prized <a href="https://beige.party/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a>, while also cutting down the old hollow trees where they nest.</p><p>The solution lies in a 'strict' <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ban</span></a> on the poaching and smuggling of parakeets until their population recovers, according to Rab Nawaz of World Wide Fund for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WWF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWF</span></a> Pakistan, who said that if these are contained, parakeet populations could recover in 'a few years'.</p><p><a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/deforestation-poaching-leave-pakistans-wild-parakeets-on-the-brink/3298875#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/defo</span><span class="invisible">restation-poaching-leave-pakistans-wild-parakeets-on-the-brink/3298875#</span></a></p>