While Guyana’s Wildlife Division allows people to legally trade the three birds with an annual cap of 200 per species, local authorities “maintain a lenient acceptance of local bird markets ...

Insaf Ali was sentenced for planning to smuggle finches into New York from Guyana, where the songbirds are a lucrative commodity in bird-singing competitions.

But with the birds sometimes fetching thousands of dollars, the contests have fed wildlife trafficking that authorities in Latin America and the U.S. have tried to combat.

For photographer Ike Edeani, the wild beauty of this secluded South American frontier was like no other. Of all the natural ...

Tropical birds caught in Ecuador’s Amazon are sold in pet shops in urban centers. Red-masked parakeets are illegally sold in stores along the border with Peru. In Suriname and Guyana, birds that ...