UK map exhibits the place harmful cougars and crocodiles are saved as pets
A UK map has revealed the place the nation’s most harmful pets reside – with cougars and crocodiles hotspots charted.
New knowledge exhibits a whopping 2,700 vicious pets are being saved throughout the nation. Most of the unique pets, which additionally embrace cheetahs and snakes, will be present in one in all 4 areas.
Bridgend was tipped because the UK’s hotspot for harmful animals, with a whopping 219 recorded within the space. A “negative list” of all unique beasts below the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 retains monitor of the creatures.
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Buckinghamshire was ranked because the second-highest space for harmful animals with a terrifying 176 animals logged within the county. In joint third was West Oxfordshire and Chichester, with 140 animals every. The knowledge revealed some 3,000 totally different harmful animals are being legally saved throughout the nation.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Dr Mark Jones, Born Free’s head of coverage, stated: “It is unbelievable that, in this day and age, so many dangerous animals, including big cats, large primates, crocodiles and venomous snakes, continue to be legally kept in people’s homes.”
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A Fellow Born Free consultant stated the Act at the moment paints the harmful animals as being saved as pets in “exceptional circumstances”, although “ongoing research paints a very different picture”.
Investigators reckoned venomous snakes within the East Midlands alone outnumber the inhabitants of harmful animals in the entire UK’s zoos mixed. Dr Jones says: “Increasing demand for and trade in all kinds of wild animals as exotic pets puts owners and the wider public at risk of injury or disease.
“It additionally ends in critical animal struggling, and the demand will increase the stress on many wild populations which are sometimes already below risk.”
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