Protest against wild bird sales
Archive - November 2003

Animal Aid has organised protests against the largest sale of wild birds in the UK - due to take place in early December.

The National Cage and Aviary Birds exhibition will be held at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th December. Last year an estimated 70,000 birds were on sale and an expert ornithologist estimated that 50,000 of them would have been caught in the wild.

CAPS investigators last year filmed conditions at the fair and joined Animal Aid and Birds First in lobbying Solihull Council to prevent the fair going ahead again, but the Council has licensed the sale this year.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

	Animal Aid are organising protests outside the fair both days where they will be handing leaflets to visitors asking them not to visit the fair and not to buy birds. Media coverage is expected. Meet on the 6th and/or 7th December at the Main Piazza entrance at 9am. Contact Animal Aid for more details: email info@animalaid.org.uk.
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