'A legitimate zoo?' How an obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots

Exclusive: A secretive organisation based in a German village has amassed one of the world's largest collections of rare parrots. How did Martin Guth, a former nightclub manager, persuade governments to authorise the export of so many endangered species? o Australia gave endangered birds to secretive German 'zoo', ignoring warningsIt's an unlikely spot for a zoo - down an unmade, dusty road, amid a wood to the east of the German capital Berlin.But here in the village of Tasdorf, hundreds of the world's most endangered and rare parrot species are said to be housed at the headquarters of the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP). Continue reading...