Killing of rare parrots - charges to be heard in Robinvale maistrates Court (Vic) on May 22

From a sheer economic perspective, this shows that poachers can make a quick $4,500 from "single counts of taking protected wildlife". 

 

What sort of deterant does current legislation provide?

 

Market value really should be attributed to any of these legislation breaches, to, at the very least, deter people engaging in these activities for profit.  

 

Like the recent destruction of the Gwydir wetlands, what would be the market value of the timber bulldozed???

 

Perhaps current legislation is  "a threatening process" to endangered species and habitats. Its certainly not offering much protection anyway.

 

Peter

 

 

 

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To: Birding-Aus <>
From: Mike Owen <>
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Date: 05/23/2007 09:05PM
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Killing of rare parrots - charges to be heard in Robinvale 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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