SOFIA, BULGARIA -
Recently, the border guards at
Dunav Most, Bulgaria, confiscated a large illegal shipment of animals. The
creatures were then transported to the quarantine zone of the Sofia Zoo. Some
of them were from rare species, one of which was protected. Problems began to
arise. The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency caused a controversy after its
employees killed more than 100 of the confiscated birds at Sofia’s Zoo.
According to them, the animals were sick and had to be put down.
A necessary step or needless
cruelty?
The action was taken out of fear
that the animals were indeed infected with Avian influenza (bird flu.) A
representative from the Bulgarian NGO “Four Paws” said: “This is the only
comment that can be made regarding their [BFSA’s] actions. Several normative
acts of Bulgarian law were broken.”
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