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APHIS puts HPAI-related restrictions on Victoria, Australia

Importation of poultry, commercial birds, ratites, avian hatching eggs, unprocessed avian products and byproducts and certain fresh poultry products are restricted. ....

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Man sentenced for smuggling 6 endangered tropical birds into Derby Line from Quebec


DERBY LINE A 40-year-old man from Pennsylvania was sentenced after pleading guilty to smuggling tropical birds into Vermont.
Jafet Rodriguez, 40, of Hazleton, was sentenced to a two-year term of federal supervised release.
Rodriguez previously pled guilty to unlawfully smuggling six tropical birds into Vermont from Canada, in violation of the Endangered Species Act and the federal anti-smuggling statute.
He was ordered to pay $1,905 to the government to cover the costs of quarantining the birds.
According to court documents, on December 30, 2019, Rodriguez walked across the Canadian border near the Haskell Free Library in Derby Line and approached a car parked in Stanstead, Quebec. ....

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