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Stop Animal Suffering in Exotic Pet Trade with a Positive List
21/01/2022 16:32
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The trade in exotic pets causes extreme suffering at every stage of an animal’s path from capture, transport to the totally unsuitable conditions for life in our homes. Physical and psychological damage, often by self-mutilation, from lack of biological or behavioural needs results in terrible animal welfare issues. The exotic pet trade also poses serious risk to human and animal health through zoonotic disease, such as COVID-19 (75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in nature, the majority originate in wild animals). Additionally, the exotic pet trade negatively impacts conservation and biodiversity, through capture and disruption of natural habitat; and through introduction of invasive species. We now have positive lists in 7 EU Member States! We should adopt a precautionary approach, through an EU wide positive list to harmonise EU legislation to reduce animal suffering.
A positive list is simple: a concise list of animals that are allowed to be kept based on strict criteria. If not on the list, it is illegal to keep or trade that animal. This is clearer, easier to enforce with less bureaucracy compared to the existing (long and ever increasing) negative lists.
A positive list is simple: a concise list of animals that are allowed to be kept based on strict criteria. If not on the list, it is illegal to keep or trade that animal. This is clearer, easier to enforce with less bureaucracy compared to the existing (long and ever increasing) negative lists.
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Dans le cadre de la présidence française du Conseil, Eurogroup for Animals a le plaisir de vous inviter à notre conférence sur le thème bien-être animal et commerce international: se regarder enfin dans le miroir.
Cet événement a pour objectif de discuter la dimension commerciale de la révision de la législation européenne sur la protection animale, et de montrer comment l’approche proposée dan les “mesures miroirs”, l'une des priorités de la présidence française du Conseil, peut injecter davantage de cohérence entre la politique commerciale de l'UE et le Pacte Vert, notamment en ce qui concerne la stratégie de « De la Ferme à la Table ».
La conférence aura lieu principalement en français, avec traduction simultanée en anglais.
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Animal Welfare and International Trade: Looking into the mirror
Together with the French Presidency of the Council of the EU, Eurogroup for Animals is delighted to invite you to our next event, which will take place on 15 March 2022 (time CET).
This event aims to discuss the commercial dimension of the revision of European legislation on animal protection, and to show how the approach adopted in "mirror measures", one of the priorities of the French Presidency of the Council, can inject more coherence between EU trade policy and the Green Deal, in particular with regard to the “Farm to Fork” strategy.
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