The Suffolk County SPCA, in cooperation with NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife and US Department of Agriculture will be hosting an Amnesty Day for illegally possessed, protected, endangered and threatened animals that require special state DEC and Fish & Wildlife Permits. Included are dangerous animals, exotics, illegal reptiles and amphibians.
Chief Roy Gross of the Suffolk SPCA said that the Amnesty Day is the first of its kind for unlawfully possessed mammals in Suffolk County. The program will be held at the the Town of Brookhaven Holtsville Ecology Center.
Trained handlers will be available to accept the unlicensed, exotic/illegal mammals, reptiles, amphibians from the public. People are asked to bring the animals in containers which will be returned on a numbered basis.
Animals that will be accepted during the program:
All reptiles that are venomous
Large Constrictor Snakes listed below
1) Burmese Python
2) Reticulated Python
3) African Rock Python
4) Green Anaconda
5) Yellow Anaconda
6) Australian Amethystine Python
7) Indian Python
Large Lizards / Monitors listed below
9) Asiatic (water) Monitor
10) Nile Monitor
11) White Throat Monitor
12) Black Throat Monitor
13) Crocodile Monitor
14) Komodo Dragon
15) All species and sub-species of Crocodilia (alligators, crocodiles & caimans)
NON TARGETED SPECIES:
Species that do not require permits, and/or are not threatened, endangered or illegal will not be accepted.
NATIVE WILDLIFE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AT THIS EVENT.
