Displaced: Pictures of Illegally Imported Animals Being Rehabilitated in NYC
Each year, an estimated 300 million animals are brought into the United States illegally to serve as exotic pets. In New York, many of those animals wind up at the New York City Center for Avian and Exotic Medicine, where the trained practitioners there nurse them back to health.
Animal photographer Linda Kuo's new series Displaced tells these animals stories and seeks to draw attention to this rarely mentioned societal problem.
