Editing Amazon parrot (section)

===Trade===
Amazon parrots are traded and exploited as pets.<ref>{{cite book|last=Nilsson|first=Greta|title=The Bird Business: A Study of the Commercial Cage Bird Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2pjAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Animal Welfare Institute|access-date=2021-07-16|archive-date=2021-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716113214/https://books.google.com/books?id=z2pjAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|69}} Archeological evidence shows that the parrot trade has existed in South America since pre-Columbian times, with mummified parrots (including amazon species) being found in the [[Atacama Desert]] region of [[Chile]].<ref name="messer">{{cite web |last1=Messer |first1=A'ndrea Elyse |title=Mummified parrots point to trade in the ancient Atacama desert |url=https://news.psu.edu/story/652392/2021/03/29/research/mummified-parrots-point-trade-ancient-atacama-desert |website=Penn State News |access-date=25 July 2021 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725124426/https://news.psu.edu/story/652392/2021/03/29/research/mummified-parrots-point-trade-ancient-atacama-desert |url-status=live }}</ref> The most traded species of amazons are blue-fronted amazons and yellow-crowned/yellow-headed amazons. A 1992 ban on wild bird trade by the US led to a sharp drop in the trade and a diversion of 66% of it to the European Union, and a further EU ban on the trade in 2005 led to another drop. Between 1980 and 2013, 372,988 amazon parrots were traded. Some illegal trade still occurs between Mexico and the United States.<ref name=mori/>{{rp|58}}<ref name=mitchell/>{{rp|255}}