Cockatoo Birds Smuggled in Plastic Bottles

Cockatoo birds stuffed in water bottles.

Recently, in a anti-smuggling operation, twenty-one cockatoos were discovered, each were stuffed in a plastic bottle. They were hidden among the 1,500 ml of plastic bottles on a boat. Indonesian custom officials at Tanjung Perak Park port in Surbaya, Indonesia, caught passengers on the boat trafficking after spotting two of them stuffed in jerry cans. A search then proceeded, the officials had discovered that the crew members had seized over twenty-two birds, all of which consisted of over two different endangered species of the cockatoo. They had to cut each one of the weak birds out of the plastic bottles. The Indonesia's Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), stated that, after the birds were handed into them, seven died due to the illness developed after being stuffed in a plastic bottle.

One of 22 birds discovered to be hidden in water bottles.