{"id":8264,"date":"2023-02-08T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:39:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:39:41","slug":"horny-rhinos-cant-breed-because-of-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/02\/08\/horny-rhinos-cant-breed-because-of-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"Horny rhinos can\u2019t breed because of Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a contender for unexpected headline of the year, this one (from The Times<\/a>), might take some beating. \u00a0Yet another social ill laid at Brexit's door. \u00a0How unusual.<\/p>\n

Zoo keepers are in a flap because the exchange of animals for \"breeding purposes\" has been lessened since 2016 because of additional paperwork.<\/div>\n
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The Times noted that about 1,400 animals a year used to be transferred between British aquariums or zoos and those in Europe (they mean \"on the Continent\"). Last year, it seems, the number fell to just over 200.<\/div>\n
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Who knew that 1400 animals had been routinely moved to and fro across the Channel? \u00a0A lot went from\/to London:<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u2013 \"Our zoos are custodians. With the increase in red tape it is difficult to move the same number of animals around.\u201d<\/p>\n

So said Malcolm Fitzpatrick, London zoo\u2019s chief zoological officer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u2013 \"Before Brexit, the zoo transferred 400 animals a year. Last year it moved only 38.\"<\/p>\n

Specialist hauliers now have to be certified to operate in the UK and the EU, leaving only one company that can move giraffes, it seems.<\/p>\n

Over 75 organisations have demanded that prime minister adds to his in-tray and fixes the problem.<\/p>\n

Some, of course, might well think that this lessening of the transportation [ export\/import ] of live animals is one of the fabled Brexit benefits that we're all looking for. \u00a0I couldn't possible say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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