do you mayhaps think that some of these species are endangered because of trafficking for the pet trade
some people’s exotic pets do definitely need to be set free. Some cannot be. My parrot was taken from the amazon as a hatchling. He spent 4 years in a tiny cage and getting abused before he came to my family and we rescued him. We then had him for 32 years. He was unable to fly. He loved cuddling. He was anxious. He could not have gone back to the Amazon. Sometimes rescued pets are exotic, not for the thrill of having an exotic pet but because other people mistreat exotics and someone’s gotta help them. If, on the other hand, you can rear the animal in preparation to be re-released or if you get the animal in adulthood, bringing it back to its natural habitat is a good idea.
do you think that perhaps the reason your parrot was poached from the wild and abused for years is because there’s a demand for them here as pets, and if we stopped the idea of parrots being housepets none of that cruelty would have come upon him
Rescue exotics in captivity should be maintained properly (which, for most, means zoo care) until their natural death, and no more should be captured or bred. Exotics are not pets and are not suitable as pets. Yes, there are a handful of people who can keep an exotic in the proper enclosure for it to do well, but that number of people is vastly outnumbered by people who just want a shiny pet and have no idea what they’re getting into, don’t have the resources to keep one, or both.
Do NOT release a captive exotic! You risk introducing disease to the area or putting an animal no longer equipped to survive into a world that will kill it.
African greys are a good example. They’re getting rarer and rarer because of collection for the pet trade. The vast majority of them will die early, miserable deaths, if not from being treated badly during import, then from improper care.
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