A six-month Guardian investigation has found:Export permits for Australian birds specified they were for exhibition purposes only, but ACTP has no facility that is freely open to the public. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Buildings associated with the Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP) in Tasdorf, Germany. Photograph: The GuardianIn paperwork submitted to the environment department in 2017, the organisation said it had facilities in five other countries, including one in the Netherlands. Concerns disregardedMultiple emails from the Australian environment department to ACTP, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal concerns that exported birds, or their offspring, would be sold. “The Association for the Conservation of Threatened Parrots (ACTP) was the importer,” she said.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2018 18:56 UTC