A Florida bird breeder and his two South African counterparts have applied to the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to import 4000 African grey parrots from SA, around half of them wild-caught, for a proposed co-operative breeding programme.
A Miami, Florida bird breeder and his two South African counterparts have applied to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to import 4000 African grey parrots from SA, around half of them wild-caught, for a proposed co-operative breeding programme .
The applicants, represented by immigration and nationality law firm Prada Urizar, PLLC, explain how the proposed CBP will be operated from Marolf’s facility in Miami, Florida with all the breeding stock acquired from O’Neill’s and Mitchell’s facilities in SA. Around 45% of the breeding stock to be sourced from SA is captive-bred. “Although the breeding stock will include wild-caught birds, they have been long removed from the wild and transferring them from a captive breeding facility in SA to a captive breeding facility in the US will have no discernible impact on wild populations.”
But the World Parrot Trust says the proposed CBD will make no contribution to the survival of the species in the wild and instead poses potential risks to wild populations. The proposal lacks detail over how the CBP will manage genetic diversity and how this will support the conservation of wild populations.
“SA has been by far the largest producer of grey parrots in captivity yet prior to the species transfer to Appendix 1 of Cites, it was also the largest importer of wild-sourced specimens with reported gross imports of 20610 specimens since 2010.”
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