He has to pay a
650,000 kroner fine
October 26th, 2015
3:35 pm| by Lucie Rychla
The details of
Denmark’s largest ever case of smuggling endangered birds have been
revealed today by the tax agency SKAT and the nature
agency Naturstyrelsen.
The authorities
received an anonymous tip-off that resulted in the arrest of a Danish smuggler,
who has been fined 650,000 kroner for the illegal trade of 43 endangered
parrots and parrot eggs.
Species on the Red
List
Some of his profits, amounting to 231,000 kroner, were also confiscated along with 30 parrots and 11 eggs.
Some of his profits, amounting to 231,000 kroner, were also confiscated along with 30 parrots and 11 eggs.
The case included
parrot species such as the Jamaican amazon, the red-capped parrot, the sun
parakeet and the eclectus parrot – all of which are on the IUCN Red List
of threatened species.
The smuggler was
selling the birds on sites like fuglemarked.dk and parrot4sale.com.
Their value was estimated as being five digit amounts.
Higher penalties
needed
Following the case, the Danish chapter of the World Wide Fund (WWF) has called for increased penalties for the illegal trade in endangered animals and plants from the current one year to two years in prison.
Following the case, the Danish chapter of the World Wide Fund (WWF) has called for increased penalties for the illegal trade in endangered animals and plants from the current one year to two years in prison.
Increasing the
penalty would allow Danish police to gain access to suspects’ online
correspondence and phone records, which is currently only possible in
cases of serious crimes.
“Without access
especially to email correspondence, the police have a very low chance at
uncovering large cases of illegal trade in endangered animals and plants,”
stated Gitte Seeberg, WWF’s secretary general.
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