Does this picture disturb you?
Yes, that’s a bird stuffed into a bottle. Worse yet, it’s an endangered (only 7000 left in the world) cockatoo. In Indonesia, these birds are sedated and stuffed into plastic bottles so they can easily be shipped to waiting customers.
Indonesia does have laws against this practice, laws which aren’t enforced. And, true, we live far away and feel we have no influence over the Indonesian government. However, their politicians are like ours; with enough pressure they’ll do something if not because it’s right at least in order to save face in the world and their jobs at home.
Help put on that pressure. Read the report from CNN, then sign Change.org’s petition that demands harsher penalties for traffickers in bottled birds.