Years so what does this tell you that what we can read into the future direction of his government . What it says to me as his weakness, not his what it says to me as his weakness, not his strength. The appointment of stephen not his strength. The appointment of Stephen Barclay isjust baffling. The Chief Of Staff role is meant to be at the Chief Of Staff role is meant to be at the the Chief Of Staff role is meant to be at the Prime Ministers site and stephen be at the Prime Ministers site and Stephen Buckley is the Cabinet OfficeStephen Buckley is the Cabinet Office minister who runs the Cabinet OfficeOffice Minister who runs the Cabinet Office and Office Minister who runs the Cabinet Office and its not clear to me how he can office and its not clear to me how he can run office and its not clear to me how he can run the department and be at the prinfus he can run the department and be at the primus tos site when he turned up the primus tos site when he turned up to the primus tos site when he turned up to answer departmental questions so is he up to answer departmental questions so is he going to answer questions about so is he going to answer questions about being the Chief Of Staff to the Prime Minister as well . How his constituents will feel about him being constituents will feel about him being their mp and now that is is their being their mp and now that is is their most being their mp and now that is is their most importantjob, im not sure their most importantjob, im not sure it their most importantjob, im not sure it says their most importantjob, im not sure. It says to me that he has been appointed sure. It says to me that he has been appointed because borisjohnson appointed because Boris Johnson cant appointed because Boris Johnson cant find appointed because borisjohnson cant find anybody else and nobody else wants to join the sinking cant find anybody else and nobody else wants tojoin the sinking ship. It else wants tojoin the sinking ship. It seems else wants tojoin the sinking ship. It seems like evidence of his weakness and not his strength. We are out weakness and not his strength. Are out of weakness and not his strength. , are out of time for this our. To come back at 11 30pm and we will find out why a japanese meal with jeremy hunt and a magical show by a former defence secretary Penny Mordaunt have caused such a kerfuffle it will come to that, jointly later to explain all. This week, laras doing something unusual. Shes left the city to join Someone Special on a walk. Shes in the new Forest National park with Wildlife Tv Legend chris packham. What a beautiful scene. Tell me about this area. Well, were in the new Forest National park here, which is famous for various habitats, its valley moors, its sandy lowland heath, but also, its ancient woodland, and there are a number of veteran trees here, a significant number, so were talking about trees that are 5, 6, 6. 5, maybe even 700 years old, and because theres been woodland here for that amount of time, it means that it supports a lot of other life there is a great richness of biodiversity. The bird fauna here is really important too weve got a number of national rarities. You can hear the birds this isnt a sound im used to living in the city no, what we got . Hold on. Weve got a bit of robin going. A blue tit. Yeah, theres blue tits and great tits calling. I mean, its a lovely, sunny, pre spring day. Theyre loving the sunshine and theyre pumping out some song. But unfortunately, not all birds are left alone in their natural habitats, and wildlife trafficking, mainly perpetrated online, is having a major impact on the worlds biodiversity crisis. Carl miller has been looking at the problem. Weve had catastrophic declines of whole suites of bird communities. Without large tracts of forest, theyre silent theyre silent forests, because the birds have been trapped out of these environments. So trapped out, in fact, that 40 of all Bird Populations in the world are now in decline. To find out a bit more, i came to london zoo, where some of these species have found a home. We have our blue crowned laughingthrushes, you know, which are a species from china. Theres less than 250 of those birds left in the wild. We actually have more in captivity. The species is more threatened than the giant panda because of the trapping for the pet trade. The illegal pet trade is a major factor in declining bird numbers. What may come as a surprise to many is that most endangered of all groups of birds are parrots. What would be less surprising, though, is that the pet trade is a major factor in their decline. Einstein could sure fit the bill because she loves to dance. Can you get down . Laughter lets get down for everybody. Come on now. Shes gonna make me do it too. Imitates dance music ooh ooh this is an african grey parrot, famous for its intelligence and the most popular one to be kept as pets. Even though many are bought in legitimate ways, their popularity fuels the illegal trade too. These birds have been almost wiped out in some of their native countries. So, five years ago, they were given the highest category of international protection. It means all International Trade of any Wild African Grey became illegal, and there were serious restrictions on any transaction involving captive bred birds as well. In short, it became illegal to capture and sell african greys. So we went undercover to investigate how online trafficking still carries on under the radar, particularly on social media. We followed one of these ads, which took us to bangladesh one of the major hubs in South East Asia for the trafficking of african greys. We set up a meeting with faiz ahmed, a trader whose social media led us to investigate possible illegal activity alongside his legitimate business. We operated under the pretext of wanting to start a breeding farm. The conversation started over legal captive bred parrots, but faiz was also prepared to sell us Wild African Greys. He was confident that he would be able to get around customs import restrictions, and also advised it would be a lucrative business. Recently, a Global Initiative was set up to understand the scale of the problem and a new system was designed to give conservationists a data driven view of possible illegal trades online. No one is able to give us an authoritative answer to how much of this is online and everywhere that it is occurring its too dynamic, the online space is too fragmented. The systems mission is to identify online trading hot spots in the hope of disrupting a business thats worth £15 billion a year. Although many online sites have worked to remove illicit content, the systems found around 10,000 Classified Ads all over the world for the sale of potentially Endangered Species and their parts. We showed our film to rowan martin of the world parrot trust, whose expertise in parrots and trafficking is helping the projects researchers. So, rowan, that was obviously undercover filming that colleagues of ours did in bangladesh. What do you think of all that . A lot of those would be Endangered Species, but it might not necessarily be illegal trade. The Conversation Switches from this sort of legal side of things to more grey areas, where he is offering up or explaining how he can import large wholesale quantities of Wild Core African Grey Parrots into bangladesh. And that would be illegal under International Law . Yeah, that would be illegal under International Law. Back in bangladesh, faiz was getting cold feet. He told us the authorities were getting stricter, so the birds could still be imported but he couldnt take responsibility for them at airport customs. When later called up by the films producer in the uk, Faiz At First denied offering to trade african greys, and then claimed he didnt know that their import was now illegal. Our reporter contacted other sellers based in africa and asia and secured promises of shipments via transit countries. But for every one of these traders who we have highlighted, there are countless others using tricks online to avoid detection. They use clever things like sharing memories of something that maybe happened back when it was legal, but that might then stimulate a discussion amongst traders about whether or not something was still available. So they might not have been directly advertising, butjust indicating that these things are available. Or, more specifically, School People within these groups about how to talk about the trade without it being flagged. This is all made worse by the way in which social media allows pockets of communities to form, who actively evade any Enforcement Efforts that do exist. They are using sort of new private channels which might only be viewable to friends and only available for a short period. These platforms arentjust sort of passively hosting a problem, theyre actually acting to amplify that problem. Thats where the system is aiming to outwit illegal sellers by figuring out the tactics being used in specific markets. On these indonesian posts, for example, its cracked a code of letters and numbers used by sellers to represent the asking price for each bird. And in other cases, its found a slang familiar to enthusiasts which might be used in possible sales, such asjitot for a bird which is fully tamed, and raw for those that are wild and in plentiful numbers. We showed some of the posts selling endangered birds to the platforms hosting them, pointing out that in many cases, their existence was breaking their own site guidelines and policies. Of those that responded, meta, the Umbrella Company of facebook and instagram, said that they people are not going to huge lengths to hide behind tor browsers and on the dark web, because they dont need to. And ive seen it for myself in these birds that often get mutilated. Theyre crammed in these really crowded boxes, dying of dehydration. Its a slow, painful, miserable death for a lot of these birds. Lara back in the new forest, i asked chris about the wider impact of the illegal wildlife trade. We are in the middle of a climate and biodiversity crisis, which is really, really seriously impacting on our lives even if we havent felt it here in uk yet so stamping out illegal Wildlife Crime is absolutely critical. The principal culprits here for me are not those poachers sometimes People Living in poverty that cant do anything but capture birds in the forest to feed their family and tackling that part of the crime would be extraordinarily difficult. The easier part would be dealing with those platforms. They have the technological capacity to stop this, i believe, overnight if there was a will. What do you feel that conservationists could do to help with this cause . Frankly, i cant write code, i dont understand algorithms. I understand birds and birdsong. But in order to protect those birds and that birdsong, i need young, smart people with their fingers on the buttons of that technological capability to act in our interest. I mean, frankly, if i had my finger in the Conservation Purse at the moment, id spend a lot more money on buying more nature reserves, so on and so forth. Id spend certainly a significant sum on tackling these tech led issues because we are underestimating how much damage theyre doing and weve got to change that. And thats it for the shortcut of click for this week. Of course, the full length version is waiting for you on right now iplayer. And you can keep up with the team on social media. Find us on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter bbcclick. Thanks for watching. Well see you soon. Bye bye. Hello. Snow is likely to become a hazard across a large swathe of scotland through this evening and overnight, all driven by this cold front. On the front itself, we are seeing rain pushing its way southwards, milder air ahead of it, but behind it, colder air and those snow showers continuing to pile into scotland. Coupled with the strong and gusty winds, it is going to mean blizzards, the potential for ice as well. Further south tonight, we have this band of rain pushing its way further southwards, pepping up through parts of the midlands, wales, south west england, some heavier rain here by the end of the night. Milder for many compared to last night but temperatures at or below freezing across parts of scotland so that ice risk, as i mentioned, and also a yellow warning from the met office for snow across a large swathe of scotland. We could see 10 15 centimetres over higher ground. Still keep that risk of snow showers through tomorrow, this band of rain across east anglia, South East England and the midlands will clear away. 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