Frustration oozes through during the lawsuit from zoo director Robin de Lange. “I do not understand the link between one missing document and confiscation. Confiscation causes so much stress to those birds. Where is animal welfare? What is this about?” The zoo is accused of receiving two rare rufous hornbills, but not looking carefully at where they came from. In any case, according to the ministry, it has not been sufficiently demonstrated that the animals were obtained legally. Nonsense, says the zoo’s lawyer.
Lawsuit over red hornbills, Ouwehands Zoo and ministry are diametrically opposed to each other
