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| | PETA India:: Campaigns : Animals in Entertainment |
 | | But the committee is no longer active, so the illegal activities of the animal dealers in the Crawford market, as well as in other markets just like it, are mushrooming. |
 | | At the Nakhas market in Lucknow, one bird hawker sells ravens, rafter pigeons, wild roosters, turkeys, ducks, lovebirds and Sarus cranes, the world’s tallest flying bird and an endangered species. |
 | | Poachers illegally bring in thousands of birds captured from the bird-rich hills and forests of the Northeast, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar – primarily around the Gangetic Plain and in the foothills of the Himalayas – or from southern states, such as Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Deccan Plateau. |
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