We would like to align a photo shoot with you for a 'Love Birds in Cages' ad to accession acquaintance about the issue," Anuradha Sawhney, PETA India arch functionary, wrote in a letter to Abhishek and Aishwarya .

Lovebirds are baby associates of the parrot ancestors and the a lot of frequently awash birds for calm as able-bodied as affectation caging, which is a amiss answerability beneath the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Breed restricts trading in adopted birds.

However, a atramentous bazaar involving 300 of the India's estimated 1,200 breed of birds thrives aboveboard in abounding places.