The recent laws regarding listed invasive species surely must be very unified indeed seeing as only one nation affected [also the only one not in the union anymore] seems to have actively ceased the breeding of coati... Perhaps it is when they are all gone in the UK, it will be perhaps tedious, albeit necessary for any zoochatter who desires to see a coati to go to the continent to find one !
@dillotest0
The EU law is open to interpretation and extension by member 'states', as the individual countries are now called. The UK chose (as is/was often the case) to uphold the letter of the law. Most mainland countries did not, and either ignored it completely or partially, or allowed a series of exemptions, which often included zoos. Legal challenges are afoot to contest the inclusion of (Ring-tailed) Coatis (and others) as one of the criteria was that the invasive species had to already have self-sustaining populations within the EU, like the Raccoon or the Ring-neck Parakeet. There are no such Coati populations; as the UK population died out and the Spanish one is dependent on feeding by tourists. So the legal inclusion of Coatis is questionable. It is expected that they will be removed from the lists in the next few years.
like the Raccoon or the Ring-neck Parakeet.
Oddly enough, whilst this bird has definitely created self-sustaining populations within the UK, it is actually not on the list at all...
All Danish zoos keeping South America coatis have certainly not been lax about the EU law, as all of them have either gone out of the species or neutered their remaining animals. So it's not just the UK that has given up on them.
