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A member from another uk forum brought up a good point that I have a feeling is the reason why they fined him so heavily and confiscated everything, despite knowing well enough that some of the species he had were not even native to Brasil. So far it seems he messed up by not following air regulations for shipping live animals in authorized packaging.That's a huge fine they levyed against him though, considering he had all the paperwork.
http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/spiders-inverts/411019-1000-spiders-suitcase-4.html
"Why has he transported them in a suit case? Is it not the case that you have to follow IATA regulations when transporting animals by air? This means then that he must have tried to get them over by the normal tourist luggage means, so if it was all legit why do this? Like I would think in 99% of all major Airports, an incoming flight that was then either meant to go to somewhere else or, the payload was meant to go on to somewhere else, and if the paper work was there all that would have happened is the manifest and the animals welfare would have been checked and then sent on no bother.
https://www.aacargo.com/downloads/IATA_Shippers_Certification.pdf
https://www.aacargo.com/downloads/IATA_Shippers_Instructions.pdf
According to the BBC, the brasilian police have said "with certainty they were not created in captivity"Although I, much like many of you and clearly the BTS, do not condone such a large collection from the wild I still hope it all works out for him (I didn't see it actually documented that they were actually wild caught as I know some countries, like Australia, do enforce captive breeding programs).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8360438.stm
"The export of Brazilian animals without authorisation is banned....Police said his luggage was inspected at random after Mr Ardern arrived on a flight from Paraguay. He said he was passing through Brazil on his way back to London.
Brazilian police said he did not have authorisation from the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Resources. Carlos Magno, from the institute, said: "He said 600 spiders were of a species which is common in Paraguay but does not live in Brazil...The other 300 were of a sort which is found as much here as there. The only certainty is that they were not created in captivity..."