Administrative fines and confiscated wild animals are imposed on individuals for illegal keeping of wild animals.
March 9 Officers of the Vilnius wildlife protection department noticed a foreign citizen carrying a protected bird – the flaming owl (lot. These albums). A permit from the Environmental Protection Agency is required to keep wild birds in captivity. The person carrying the owl at the fair did not have such a permit. Officials have found the same case in December last year, when a person carried an owl in the center of Vilnius without the necessary permit.
A week later, another case of illegal keeping of a wild animal was solved. After the department received a report that a farmer in the village of Viktarinė, Šalčininkai district, was illegally keeping a monkey in the residential premises of his homestead, the officers applied to the court for permission to conduct an inspection of the person’s residential premises.
After receiving a court decision to enter a person’s residential premises, on March 14. the person’s homestead, living quarters and territory were checked. A rhesus macaque monkey was found in an aviary near the residential building where bulls, sheep, goats, and fallow deer were kept. (lot. Macaca mulatta). Please note that individuals are prohibited from keeping, breeding and purchasing for captivity any species of monkey (lot. Primates).
Both the monkey and the flaming owl were taken and handed over to the specialists of the Wild Animal Care Center, and following the decisions made in the administrative offense case become valid, the cent will transfer the animals to new homes – scientific or educational institutions (for example, a zoo).
“We still come across cases where wild animals are treated like domestic animals without taking into account their physiological needs, for example, in this case a monkey, an animal from warm countries, was kept in an outdoor enclosure during the cold season. It is good that society does not tolerate such actions, reports regarding it, and we manage to identify these violations more and more often”, says Mantė Ramanauskienė, director of the Department of Wildlife Protection.
An administrative fine from 60 to 600 euros and confiscation of the wild animal is applied for illegally keeping a wild animal.
More detailed information regarding the established requirements for wild animals kept in captivity can be found in the information prepared by specialists of the Department of Environmental Protection – see here.
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2024-04-07 05:18:08
