SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1990
PUBLIC WARNED NOT TO BRING IN ENDANGERED SPECIES
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A MAN WAS FINED $3,000 BY THE FANLING MAGISTRACY RECENTLY FOR IMPORTING A LIVE PANGOLIN FROM CHINA WITHOUT A LICENCE.
ANOTHER MAN WAS FINED $1,000 IN THE SAME MAGISTRACY LAST MONTH FOR IMPORTING 1.5 KILOGRAMS OF PANGOLIN MEAT FROM CHINA.
OTHER THAN THE ABOVE FINES, BOTH OF THE LIVE PANGOLIN AND THE MEAT WERE CONFISCATED.
CITING THE TWO CASES AS STRINGENT EXAMPLES OF THE PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES, THE SENIOR CONSERVATION OFFICER OF THE AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT, MR M.K. CHEUNG, TODAY (SATURDAY) WARNED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT ANYONE WHO TRIED то BRING IN ANY ENDANGERED SPECIES, INCLUDING LIVE AND STUFFED SPECIMENS AS WELL AS THEIR PARTS WITHOUT A LICENCE, WOULD BE PROSECUTED.
HE SAID: "PEOPLE VISITING CHINA AND OVERSEAS COUNTRIES DURING THE EASTER HOLIDAYS SHOULD PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION NOT TO BRING BACK SOUVENIR PRODUCTS MADE OF ENDANGERED SPECIES ON THEIR RETURN ΤΟ HONG KONG.
"COMMON ITEMS SEIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDE STUFFED SEA TURTLES AND CROCODILE SPECIMENS, MONITOR LIZARD SKINS, PANGOLIN, IVORY, PARROTS, OWLS, BRIDS OF PREY AND SLOW LORIS."
HE SAID THAT OFFICERS OF BOTH THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISK DEPARTMENT AND HIS DEPARTMENT WOULD EXERCISE EXTRA VIGILANCE AT ALL ENTRY POINTS TO CHECK ON TRAVELLERS AND GOODS VEHICLES DURING THE HOLIDAY PERIOD.
DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS
YEAR, MR CHRUNG SAID,
SEIZURES WERE MADE AT CUSTOMS CHECKPOINTS IN CONNECTION WITH ILLEGAL IMPORT OF ENDANGERED SPECIES.
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"FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS MAY RESULT A MAXIMUM FINE OF $25,000 ON THE FIRST OFFENCE AND $50,000 PLUS SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT FOR A REPEATED OFFENCE, MR CHEUNG ADDED.
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