Tony Silva

Tony Silva (born 1962) is an American ornithologist, one-time president of the American Parrot Association, and former director at Tenerife's Loro Parque, Europe's largest parrot park. He is author of the book "A Monograph of Endangered Parrots" (1989).

In 1996, he was arrested and sentenced to 82 months without parole with conspiracy to violate wildlife privates and tax evasion, and fined $100,000 for smuggling Hyacinth Macaws. [Citation| first=Jason| last =Lowther| first2 =Dee| last2 =Cook| first3 =Martin| last3 =Roberts| title = Crime and Punishment in the Wildlife Trade| publisher = World Wildlife Federation| date =2002-08-05| format = PDF| url = http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/crime_and_punishment.pdf| accessdate = 2007-09-09 ] His smuggling ring gained an estimated $1.3 million before they were caught.cite news|title=A Defender of Rare Birds Is Guilty of Smuggling Them|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE7D81739F930A35751C0A960958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|date=February 3, 1996|accessdate=2008-03-23]

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