down through the years ? I have noticed in the past decade of axis of the commercial collecting of wild caught to be actually justified without the thought by many what exactly makes commercial collecting commercial. Meaning that there is an ultimate goal of collecting w/c for monies ( breeding for profit ). While there was a time ( and it has definitely slowed down at least here in the USA ) when the commercial collecting of w/c was the way to go and as with very little opposition for many of us and I'm slightly embarrassed to include myself. Of course we are talking before the 90ties and before. While the hobby was at that stage, yes , there was some people getting into the buying of w/c to promote breeding and genes and just not the keeping of a pet reptile. But let's examine my upper sentence of the ultimate goal > if you collect or purchase w/c species to breed for whatever purpose and resale offspring's, isn't that just one form of a commercialization ? Grant it that it is not of the commercialization of collecting every freaking thing or any mass number of any certain species to make monies but I view this as still a form of commercialization. I invite any thoughts on this or any debates........
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I may be old , cantankerous, crabby, and cynical, but......

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