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Killing of rare parrots - charges to be heard inRobinvale maistrates Cou

To: "Mike Owen" <>, "Birding-Aus" <>
Subject: Killing of rare parrots - charges to be heard inRobinvale maistrates Court (Vic) on May 22
From: "Bill Stent" <>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 06:41:23 +1000
In that case there's a good argument for a civil (as against criminal) case 
against these two (and the company) to recover those damages.

This sort of second case is not uncommon.

Bill

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From:  on behalf of Mike Owen
Sent: Wed 23/05/2007 9:05 PM
To: Birding-Aus
Subject: Killing of rare parrots - charges to be heard inRobinvale maistrates 
Court (Vic) on May 22



James O'Connor wrote:
> A few years ago Mark Holdsworth valued Orange-bellied Parrots at
> $35,000 apiece. Ignore CPI, and give the Regents a (conservative)
> price tag of 20 grand each - 40 of them adds up to $800,000. These
> blokes were fined a total of $1500, which works out at $37.50 a bird.
>

Aviary bred Regent parrots retail at around $100 to $150 each currently
- so 40 would be worth up to $6,000.  However their monetary value is
immaterial, they seem to have got off lightly.

cheers,

Mike Owen
Sunshine Coast
Qld
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