Saturday, June 6, 2009

Nest egg of swiftlet saliva


By Shah A.D

THE Teluk Intan Municipal Council has issued more than 500 permits for commercial swiftlet nesting activities since 2006, said its president Ibrahim Ahmad.

“The permits were issued on the conditions that the birds must be located away from housing areas and that the recording to lure the birds to the building must not be louder than 40 decibels.

“The council is working closely with the Department of Environment to monitor the breeding of the birds and also the harvesting of the bird’s nest,” he said at a meet-the-people session at the town hall in Teluk Intan yesterday.

The Prime Minister’s Department Public Complaints Bureau director Aziz Ismail, who was also present at the session, said he had received many compaints about the bird’s nest activities nationwide and investigations had shown that most of them were unlicensed

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