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The article reports on the plan of ecologists move against export of Argentinian parrots. An application from Argentina to export parrots as pets to the U.S. has annoyed ecologists, some of whom say it would deplete populations in the wild. If the application is accepted, Argentina will become the first country to export wild birds for the US pet trade since a tough law on imports was enacted in 1992 to prevent species being wiped out by commercial trappers. Government biologists in Argentina have fashioned a sustainable-use management plan that they say will allow limited collecting of the blue-fronted Amazon parrot, Amazona aestiva with part of the money from sales going towards maintaining the parrots' threatened forest habitat.