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Selling Birds for a Living

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Joanna Siherheti; 6/5/08

There is nothing like walking through Honiara to come across a young man standing around the busy street with an owl. It turned out that the young man, who caused public stir on Friday with his rare catch of an owl, was actually waiting for a potential buyer. In an interview with the young man from north Malaita, Mickey Gwalu spoke of his interest in keeping birds and selling them to expatriates.

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