Angelina is a red panda. GK Air team transported its small passenger to the Emerald Ile. The zoo Berlin Tierpark was the client and had already coordinated everything for a smooth transport of the little bear. "We like to work with Tierpark Berlin", says Kay Wissenbach, managing director of G.K. Air. "Once again everything worked out perfectly. Although such flights are no daily route for many of them we really do enjoy seeing to that the little passengers arrive safely at their new home," continues Wissenbach. "The special transport boxes we use for these transports have been proved by IATA and thus comply with the standards of the umbrella organisation of airlines."

The long-legged Maras look more like fat domestic rabbits. They come from South America and are well adapted to steppe areas. Three females and three males started on a long trip from the Hanover zoo to Novosibirsk on the Ob. The particular challenge of this animal transport was in the elaborate transport arrangements.

Being a bear of thirty years already counts as an impressive age for a brown bear. The old lady named Betsy embarked upon her last great journey to her new home. This included a plane trip from sunny Houston in the US to Romania and concluded by special transport vehicle in a vast open-air enclosure. For the 165-pound bear, it will be a considerable transition, since in recent years, she lived in a private enclosure, which looked more like a collection of garages, together with tigers and other exotics. The American authorities charged the animal welfare organization in Houston, the "American Society for the Prevention of cruelty to animals" (ASPCA), to locate a new species-appropriate home for the seized animals. First of all Betsy Bear was subjected to a complete health check. The full program, right up to a complete review of her overall stats.

The order books of the big distributers in the business clearly show that the demand for exotic reptiles and amphibians as household pets still seems to have a stable development.  A strong and steady progression can be expected, the trend being as it is, moving to ever more curiously eccentric species as part of the households that need to be relocated with their owners alike. So the pet transportation service at G.K. Airfreight regularly get to see allot of rather unusual import consignments, for which many of them require appropriate (CITES) documentation as stipulated in the laws protecting particular species.

Our guest list last week is surely not suitable for the more frail and fragile at heart:

When animals are being transported from abroad, not paying attention to such exigencies can under certain circumstances lead to death, especially when it comes to amphibians, as these react very sensitively to any changes in temperature and humidity.