The vice-chairperson of the Parrot Breeders Association of Southern Africa has quit but faces charges after the SPCA discovered around 300 carcasses at his facility in Randburg.
Johannesburg - The vice-chairperson of the Parrot Breeders Association of Southern Africa resigned after receiving “death threats” following an SPCA inspection at his captive parrot breeding facility in Randburg.
Randburg SPCA inspector Shiven Bodasing confirmed this week it had laid criminal charges against Meiring for animal cruelty and for being in possession of bush babies.“Meiring informed us that his freezers broke during load shedding and what we are seeing is 30 years of birds that have died throughout the span of the operation,” said Bodasing.
Chairperson Ben Minnaar said Meiring resigned as a Pasa member “following death threats from comments on media articles”. South Africa’s parrot breeding industry, said Martin, had “grown massively” in recent years and “is built partly on the back of cheap imports of wild-caught parrots as breeding stock, which has decimated some wild populations”.
“It would be expected that those at the top of organisations representing aviculture would be leaders in best practice rather than cutting corners.”
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