11 Large Ara Parrots That Were Declared Positive For Bird Flu Were Exterminated

A cargo terminal officer at the Suktan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport in Palembang transports a wooden cage containing protected animals on Tuesday, October 5 (M. Riezko Bima Elko P/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Natural Resources Conservation Agency of South Sumatra destroyed 11 large parrots (Psittaculirostris desmarestii) which were tested positive for bird flu. /PK.310/F.5.C/10/2021 dated October 1, 2021. "The eleven positive bird flu cases were immediately destroyed," said Head of the South Sumatra BKSDA Ujang Wisnu Barata in Palembang, reported by Antara, Tuesday, October 5.

According to him, this is in accordance with standard operating procedures so as not to endanger the safety of other animals, considering that these protected animals are translocated to their respective original areas to Papua, West Papua, and Maluku. birds," he said. These animals, he continued, were caught by the Special Criminal Investigation Unit of the South Sumatra Regional Police in Palambang last September. From the catch, 114 animals were handed over to the BKSDA. From the number of captive breeding series, 76 animals were found and of them 11 were positive for bird flu, leaving 65 animals ready to be translocated.