The property in Blizna, where the NGO "Animal Shelter and Recovery" is located, is not adequate for keeping animals, nor does it have all the necessary permits.
This was announced by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Milicković's statements that the property where the animals are located are adequate for further engagement, nor that he is in possession of all the individual permits for the animals that are in the shelter, are not true," claim the Agency.
They state that on January 13, 2022, representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency and the chief environmental inspector visited the estate in Blizna.
"The purpose of the visit was a tour of that locality, initiated by learning through the media that, in addition to numerous other animals, there is also a kangaroo (wallabi) on the estate. The kangaroo and certain other animals on the Milicković estate are not on the list of animals for which the Agency issued permits. Exotic snakes, kangaroos and many others, which was confirmed by the Ecological Inspection with its findings, do not have an export-import permit or a permit on origin," the announcement states.
They state that the holding of wild animals in captivity is approved on the estate:
- one brown bear
- of a European wolf
- five fallow deer
- two muflcons
- two gold kuna
- two red foxes
- two chinchillas
- two European red squirrels
- three American red squirrels
- an individual llama
- two two-humped camels
- eight emus
- four African ostriches
- Wildcat
- raven
- cuckoo owls
- two swans crested
- two red-eared South American tortoises
- two yellow-eared turtles
- parrot pennant
- parrot berg
- Great Alexander parrot
- parrot gray jako
- two raccoons
- Eurasian badger
- four Siberian squirrels
- two Canadian chipmunks
- five degu squirrels
- two royal pheasants
"The agency did not grant a work permit to the mentioned "shelter", but only a temporary permit for the keeping of the listed animals. This Decision also established the obligations, as well as the closer conditions for the keeping and breeding of protected wild species of animals, which the owner Miljan Miličković does not respect. Thus Miličković violates several articles of the Law on Nature Protection, which affects or may affect the validity of the permit, which is primarily the legal obligation to mark, inform this Agency that it is in possession of the animal within 30 days from the day of acquiring the animal, etc., the statement states. .
They point out that according to all the mentioned items, the NGO "Animal Shelter and Recovery" - Podgorica, "is in violation of the legal provisions, which was established during the visit - that there are specimens of animal species that are not on the list of permits issued by the Agency" on Milicković's estate.
In the announcement, among other things, they state that since the "shelter" operates in the gray zone and "provenly violates certain legal provisions", the lion, which was recently found in Budva, could not be accommodated in the same.
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