An influential American hunting that caused outrage after collecting a Wombat baby in Australia and carrying him from his mother is now in danger of losing his Australian visa when an investigation into his behavior is launched.
Sam Jones, who has About 100,000 Instagram followersNow it is under scrutiny and Australia Interior Minister Tony Burke says that his department is “working under the conditions” in the Jones visa to determine “if the immigration law has been violated.”
“I can't wait to see the back of this individual,” Burke said in a statement on Thursday in response to the recording.
The video, which was filmed in an unknown place on an unknown date, shows Jones running along the way with the Joey, showing the baby animal.
“I caught a Wombat baby,” he tells the camera as Joey's sisses and screens.
“It's fine, Mom is right there and is angry,” says Jones, while the camera is handled to Mother Wombat emerging from the bush to the side of the road. Jones then lower the animal.
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Since then, the video has been eliminated and Jones has eliminated its Tiktok account and has established its instagram privately.
The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, described Jones' decision to separate Joey from his mother “an outrage” and challenged Jones to try to collect one of the most dangerous animals in his country.
“Maybe she could Try other Australian animals“He said at a press conference when asked about the incident, according to The Guardian.” Take a crocodile baby from her mother and see how you are going there. Take another animal that can really defend himself instead of stealing a baby from her mother. Look how you're going there. “
Burke, in a statement to CNN, said Jones can You are never welcome in your country.
“Given the level of scrutiny that will happen if you ever request a visa again, it will surprise me if you even bother,” he said by email at the exit.
“I don't hope I return.”
Meanwhile, environmentalists and wildlife experts have expressed their outrage and disappointment for Jones' actions, saying that the separation of the baby and the mother would cause stress reactions in both.
“Leaving a baby away from his mother, fleeing with him and having the baby hanging in his hands, is quite high up there in Not to do“Said Barry Brook, an ecologist at the University of Tasmania, to CNN.
He Wombat Protection Society said In a statement that he was surprised to see the “misconduct of a Koey Koey in an apparent start for the” I like social networks. “
“(Jones) then replaced the vulnerable baby on a rural road, which could put it at risk of becoming Roadkill,” he said in his statement.
Wombats are a legally protected species in Australia. Native animals share a strong link between mothers and offspring.
“The Wombats are not a photographic accessory or a toy,” said Suzanne Milthorpe, campaign director at World Animal Protection Australia, in an online statement.
“It is unacceptable, and we are glad to be called for accounts. He throws a baby who shouts at his mother is not just frightening, it is very illegal according to state or national laws, ”Milthrope wrote.
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