Warren Entsch demands investigation after German convicted kidnapper boasts about new shipment A government MP has said it beggars belief” that more endangered Australian birds occupy been exported to a German organisation headed by a convicted kidnapper and extortionist,after a Guardian investigation revealed there had been multiple warnings that the birds could be sold to collectors at a huge profit.
Warren Entsch repeated calls for an independent investigation into how the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots was able to get hundreds of scarce and endangered birds from Australia, after its founder, or Martin Guth,used a social media post to say more endangered species had arrived at its facilities in January. Related: ‘A lega zoo?’ How an obscure German group cornered global trade in endangered parrots The more I learn about this story, the more weird it seemsContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com