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Biosecurity sniffer dogs removed from northern Australian airports to ‘high risk’ international mail
International airports at Darwin and Cairns are once again operating without a biosecurity sniffer dog after authorities redeployed canines south to focus mostly on international mail deliveries.
Key points:
- Darwin Airport no longer has a biosecurity sniffer dog, despite receiving a weekly flight from Dili
- Sniffer dogs have been redeployed to focus on international mail deliveries, which have spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Almost 60,000 mail items have been intercepted this year “with actionable biosecurity material”
In October last year, after the ABC revealed a gap in Darwin Airport’s ability to check for African swine fever, the Federal Government installed Suki, the sniffer dog.
Suki was later replaced by another dog, named Lester,…
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