CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: SPCA CONFISCATED REPTILES & SCORPIONS re: Inhumanly transported from Mozambique on route to USA pet market VARIOUS DEAD CAMELIONS, SNAKES & SCORPIONS; CRATES LIVE CAMELIONS & SNAKES RECOVERING

Record ID: 893562

  • Title: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: SPCA CONFISCATED REPTILES & SCORPIONS re: Inhumanly transported from Mozambique on route to USA pet market VARIOUS DEAD CAMELIONS, SNAKES & SCORPIONS; CRATES LIVE CAMELIONS & SNAKES RECOVERING
  • Date: 6th November 1996
  • Summary: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: SPCA CONFISCATED REPTILES & SCORPIONS re: Inhumanly transported from Mozambique on route to USA pet market VARIOUS DEAD CAMELIONS, SNAKES & SCORPIONS; CRATES LIVE CAMELIONS & SNAKES RECOVERING
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  • City: PRETORIA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96NOV06R02
  • Story Text:SPCA & PRETORIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS CONFISCATED VARIOUS REPTILES & INSECTS re: Inhumanly transported
    from Mozambique on route to USA pet market

    12.08.36 RICK ALLEN [SPCA] SHOWING DIFFERENT CONTAINERS WITH DEAD REPTILES & INSECTS - DEAD CAMELION IN TOO SMALL BOX
    12.09.32 ...this is no way how a camelion should be transported..
    12.10.38 VARIOUS OF DEAD CAMELION
    12.16.06 DEAD SCORPIONS IN CONTAINER
    12.16.37 DEAD SPIDERS
    12.17.03 ...problem with breathing holes on the side of the crate is that when they get packed on the aircraft, they get packed side by side...
    12.17.44 LIVE SCORPIONS
    12.18.14 TORTOISES
    12.19.24 ...if we do not come up with a solution by Friday, they'll be sent back to point of origin which is Mozambique...we are obviously interested in the best interest of the animal...
    12.19.49 ...these animals are transported in an inhuman manner...
    12.20.26 LIVE SNAKES IN BAGS
    12.21.42 VARIOUS OF CONTAINERS
    12.22.14 SCORPION WITH BABIES
    12.22.49 PUGG ADDER ...when we opened the box it was catually out of its sack; it was moving around the box freely...
    12.23.11 GECOS - PETS OVERSEAS
    12.23.57 ...it's the way that they're actually been transported; these boxes and that are not humane, they are not the best way to transport these animals at all. It's actually to the detriment of the animal...
    12.24.38 ...the only problem we have from an SAPC point of view is that these are inhuman carrying crates...
    12.25.02 ...it comes from Mozambique and they were on route to the USA...
    12.25.41 PHOTOGRAPH OF 30 PARROTS IN SMALL CAGE
    12.26.18 ...at this stage the animals have been placed into our custody...
    12.27.05 FIGURES HOW MANY REPTILES IN POSSESSION
    12.27.20 60% DEAD CAMELIONS - NEXT HOUR MIGHT BE MORE - ALL DUE TO INHUMANE CRATING
    12.27.52 VARIOUS OF CRATES
    12.30.47 SNAKE MOVING
    12.31.20 SCORPION
    12.33.40 DEAD CAMELIONS
    12.48.13 SURVIVING CAMELIONS CLIMBING BRANCH
    12.49.24 CAMELION ON BRANCH
    12.50.51 TCU CAMELION LOOKING AROUND
    12.52.16 MIKE PEMRITH [HEAD OF AKWARIUM & REPTILES OF NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS] EXPLAINING ABOUT CAMELIONS...only way they can drink water is from licking drops from leafs...spaying them...dehidrated when they came...
    12.53.48 VARIOUS OF CAMELIONS
    12.59.32 CONTAINER WITH LABEL 'DANGER LIVE SNAKES"
    12.59.47 RICK ALLEN EXPLAINING SHIPMENT OF REPTILES FROM MOZAMBIQUE ON ROUTE TO USA
    13.00.08 HALF THE SHIPMENT OF 4000 ANIMALS WAS LOADED ONTO PLANE TO USA - 2500 WE HAVE IN OUR POSESSION WERE LEFT BEHIND IN THE CARGO AREA
    13.01.53 FIRST CONCERN WERE THE CAMELIONS - 395 OF WHICH 191 ALREADY DIED - DUE TO INCORRECT CRATING - 2500 REPTILES - LISTING WHAT KIND
    13.02.58 ...we would like to send out a clear message that anybody who tries to use SA as a gateway...the can do it but the animals must be treated humanly...
    13.03.45 CONTAINER WITH DEAD CAMELION - BITTEN ITS WAY THROUGH TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX TO GET AIR
    13.04.34 SHOWING VARIOUS SUFFOCATED CAMELIONS
    13.05.23 BAG OF DEAD SNAKES
    13.06.59 PRICES CAMELIONS - PET TRADE
    13.26.01 EXTERIORS NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS PRETORIA
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