Wild birds banned…
A European Union ban on imports of birds caught in the wild will become permanent on 1 July. Conservationists have welcomed the move, saying it will curtail trade in rare species. The temporary ban was imposed in October 2005 after birds in a UK quarantine centre were found to have bird flu.
…and blamed
Migratory birds are probably the cause of an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu that has killed 4000 chickens on a farm in Japan. No people have been infected so far. In Indonesia, backyard poultry farming will probably be banned in an effort to…
