Abstract
Fireback pheasants are colorful, fascinating avicultural subjects, and their preservation and captive propagation should be encouraged if we are to protect them from extinction through habitat destruction in the wild. Population pressures and deforestation in Indonesia and southeast Asia currently threaten their
normal range. Firebacks tend to inhabit the lower elevations of their range, the same area that is favored by increased population and the concurrent spread of
slash and burn agriculture. Large scale logging of the forests of Borneo and similar areas in the region has also reduced the natural surroundings of these birds, and thus makes it mandatory that efforts be made to preserve and protect these...