The birds were plentiful as recently in 2010, when Yusmida converted the top two floors of her house into a home for swiftlets. But a few years later, Singkawang’s largest shopping mall was ...

Bird's nest is a delicacy found in Chinese-speaking countries across Asia. It's made from the hardened saliva of a swiftlet and can fetch up to S$3,500 ($2,600 USD) per kilogram. Swiftlet farms ...

Bird hotels in Indonesia try to attract swiftlets, whose edible nests are a delicacy in China. The swiftlet nests, made of dried saliva, are used to make bird's nest soup.

Farmers typically allow late-nesting swiftlets to raise young, and even captively raise swiftlets in the nests of other birds to keep numbers up.) National parks in India, Thailand, and other ...

Swiftlets are protected under the Wildlife Conservation Enactment of 1997, and their nests can only be harvested twice a year. In Southeast Asia, raising these birds for their nests is a lucrative ...

Bird’s Nest Soup made from the nests of the Swiftlet, a small bird found in regions like China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore has gained the attention of internet users.

The Cambodian government has urged the owners of swiftlet nest houses and processing facilities who wish to export edible bird’s nests to the Chinese market to apply for the necessary paperwork.

KOTA KINABALU, Feb 9 (Bernama) -- Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development (KUSKOP) Datuk Ewon Benedick today announced an allocation of RM100,000 for the Kanibongan Swiftlet Cooperative ...

Bird's Nest soup is a famous delicacy in Chinese cuisine, known for being made from the nests of Edible-nest swiftlets. These birds, native to South Asia, create their nests using their own saliva. In ...

Sabah, swiflet bird’s nest, KUSKOP, allocation, cooperative. KOTA KINABALU, Feb 9 (Bernama) -- Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development (KUSKOP) Datuk Ewon Benedick today announced an ...