DNP to protect rare bird by easing breeder registration

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) is speeding up the registration of people breeding the red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus), a protected bird popular with unrfegistered breeders.

The red-whiskered bulbul is listed as protected wildlife species No 550 under the 2003 ministerial regulation specifying which species are protected from poaching and which can be…