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International trade of swiftlet nests has affected wild populations of edible-nest swiftlets throughout their range. The white-nest swiftlet Aerodramus fuciphagus of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands lost 80% of its population in the 1990s. Conservation efforts for the species were initiated in 2000, with the active involvement of former nest collect...

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... Finally, swiftlet farming is one of the solutions to relieve collection pressures off wild populations which have seen significant declines in recent decades (Phach and Voisin, 1998;Tompkins, 1999;Gausset, 2004;Hobbs, 2004;Manchi and Sankaran, 2014) and ensure more sustainable harvesting into the future (Sankaran, 2001). However, the predation of swiftlets by reptilian predators creates human-wildlife conflict issues and in most instances the predators are killed (Chong et al., 2021). ...