Hi Akos et al,
The point of the law, as I understand it, is to prevent animals being
killed for access to the material. ie How can you prove that the
feather you have was dropped from a free-living or rehab bird? Or the
stuffed frogmouth on the mantle piece was roadkill? You can't, and
there is a possibility that some folk will shoot, trap and so on
deliberately to get the feather/skin/carcass that they desire. Thus we
have the blanket law.
I don't entirely agree with it, and would rather see prosecution
effort go towards some of the more blatant acts of wildlife
persecution, however I can see their point. I also doubt that anyone
has ever been, or will ever be, charged for possessing a feather,
though perhaps I'm wrong?
Cheers,
Paul
On 12/02/2009, at 4:53 PM, wrote:
Just keep the feathers for yourself. Don't tell anyone? What is the
big deal?
It's a freaking feather that fell out for crying out loud!
Unbelievable rubbish I reckon. I cannot wait to be charged for
breathing
the air or for whatever they decide to charge for. Perhaps to
photograph
wildlife, God forbid just in case you manage to sell one lousy
picture. I
am in stitches! LOL!
-- Original Message --
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:21:25 +0930
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
To: Tony Russell <>,
<>,
<>,
<>
CC: Birding Aus <>
When I told him to go ahead, he hesitated, then said he'd "probably
end
up
with egg on (his) face". A magistrate friend told me she'd have
thrown
the
case out of court.
When I see the damage wrought by developers, by weeds such as Gamba
grass,
and by agriculture and hard-hooved grazing animals, I do wonder if
we've
lost our sense of proportion.
Denise
on 12/2/09 3:05 PM, Tony Russell at wrote:
Bureaucracy gone bonkers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Goodfellow
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:01 PM
To: Tony Russell; ; ;
Cc: Birding Aus
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
A client of mine told me that he and a friend were threatened with
prosecution for hopping out of their car to look at a dead snake in
northern Queensland.
I was threatened similarly for taking a couple of dead snakes to my
son's class to teach the kids how to tell the difference between
venomous and non-venomous.
Denise
on 12/2/09 2:47 PM, Tony Russell at wrote:
I picked up a tail feather in about 2000 (which I still have) of a
Glossy Cockatoo on Kangaroo Island, South Oz. When I walked into
the
rangers office at Seal Bay with the feather stuck in my hat band I
was immediately accosted by one of the rangers who warned me that
to
even pick up and keep a feather is illegal. Be careful out there
all
you feather collectors.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:57 AM
To: ;
Cc:
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Email requesting feathers
I got exactly the same too! I thought I was special. LOL!!!
Glad I visit this list daily. This fellow is not going to get my
Sooty
and Powerful Owl feathers then, neither the Tawny Frogmouths nor
others..... (Of course all were found on the ground or dropped by
rehabilitated birds)
Cheers
Akos :)
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