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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate her Department has made of the numbers of wild caught (a) parrots and (b) other birds brought into the UK broken down by each country from which these imports originated in each of the last five years for which records are available. [135812] Mr. Morley: The available information is set out in the attached tables: Table A for parrots, Table B for other birds. Table A Imports of parrots _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Country Year Number United Arab Emirates 2001 1 Angola 1999 1 Argentina 1998 120 1999 410 2000 441 2001 58 Australia 2002 3 Benin 1999 1 Democratic Republic of Congo 1999 1 2000 1 Congo 2002 1 Cote D'lvoire 2002 200 Cameroon 1998 410 1999 2,065 2000 700 2001 600 2002 2,200 Egypt 2000 1 Ghana 2000 1 Gambia 2001 1 Guinea 1998 2,274 2001 600 2002 534 Guyana 1998 1,192 1999 1,308 2000 1,115 2001 2,702 2002 2,655 Indonesia 1998 182 Kenya 1998 1 1999 1 2000 1 2001 1 Mali 1999 1 2001 200 2002 550 Mauritius 2000 1 Malaysia 1998 620 2002 228 Nigeria 1998 2 1999 1 2001 1 Nicaragua 2001 115 2002 854 New Zealand 1998 40 Panama 1998 1 Peru 2002 249 Paraguay 1998 2 2002 1,961 Senegal 2001 200 Surinam 2002 723 Total 25,531 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Table B Imports of other birds _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Country Year Number Argentina 1998 2 Democratic Republic of Congo 2001 6 Congo 2000 8 2001 2 Cameroon 1998 11 2001 19 2002 33 Cape Verde Islands 2002 5 Ghana 2001 31 Guinea 1999 30 2000 8 2002 50 Guyana 1998 62 1999 51 2000 95 2001 100 2002 67 Iceland 1999 1 Indonesia 2000 1 Kazakhstan 1999 3 Nicaragua 2001 6 2002 21 Netherlands 2000 1 Norway 1998 12 Peru 1999 13 2000 56 2001 5 2002 12 Poland 2002 1 Paraguay 2002 387 Russian Federation 1998 10 1999 33 Surinam 2002 14 Tanzania 1998 16 1999 24 2000 6 2002 35 South Africa 1998 1 2000 2 Total 1,240 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

135812; 413 c418-9W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Birds Imports Wildlife Parrots

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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