The Koh Kong provincial Department of Environment has urged swiftlet house owners in the province to follow environmental protection guidelines before legal measures are taken. Provincial environment ...

A tiny, brownish bird that lives in the limestone caves of Andaman & Nicobar Islands makes a unique and strange nest. It uses its own saliva and attaches its sticky home as a little cup against the ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup. Farmers compete to attract ...

Dinh Van Thuan, 40, shocked his family by announcing that he would quit his IT job at the peak of his career to become a farmer. As has been his habit for the past few years the Nam Dinh native begins ...

Due to a belief in the high medicinal value of bird's nest soup, heavy Chinese demand for swiftlet nests has resulted in a multibillion-dollar industry that may be endangering the bird. There are ...

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