"It will be impossible to maintain swiftlet flocks under the current unmanaged system of nest gathering," says the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Recently it published the latest report on international trade in swiftlet nests, and is preparing to propose at its meeting in Florida this November that the swiftlet be listed as a class ='Qword'>Class 2 endangered species and be protected.
「金絲燕的族群，要在現有缺乏管理的採收情況下，繼續維持是不可能的」，世界自然基金會（ＷＷＦ）因此在四月出版了最新的國際燕窩交易報告，準備在今年十一月，華盛頓國家公約組織於美國佛羅里達開會時，提出將金絲燕列入第二類瀕臨絕種野生動物名單，加以保護。