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It’s no ! The story repeats itself. Almost not astonishing, concerning a parrot… By decree of October 14, the President of the Country once again refuses the introduction of the parrot of the host of Radio 1, Benny.
Since December 2019, back from Canada, Benjamin Varney wants to bring Jackson, his 12-year-old Macaw parrot. For this, he had subjected his animal to a complete clinical examination. He had also requested a consultancy firm to establish a risk analysis concerning his introduction to fenua. “Negligible or very low risk” of transmission of disease (s), had been concluded by the expertise.
Despite all these precautions and steps, the Country had not followed up on his request, taking refuge behind an unfavorable opinion from the commission of natural sites and monuments.
Determined, the host had then seized the administrative court which considered, at the beginning of September, that “the harmlessness of the import (…) must be regarded as established” and that “the contested decision is vitiated by an error of appreciation ”. The Country then had one month to reconsider Benny’s request.
Edouard Fritch relies on a new unfavorable opinion of the commission of the sites and the natural monuments of September 21 which, considers the harmlessness of the introduction of the parrot Jackson on the local biodiversity “not established”, on the analysis of the veterinarian official from the biosafety department which joins the same analysis. The chief executive drives the point home saying that there is “absence of measures demonstrating that the animal will remain in captivity in Tahiti”, that the argument in the study affirming that in the event of flight the animal does not ‘no chance of survival is’ unsubstantiated’. Finally, the President of the Country considers, in the decree taken, that the study forgot to look at the risks that the introduction of an exotic parrot would run on endemic parrots of Polynesia.
The owner of the animal can again appeal to the administrative court within two months.
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