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Horridus
at Tue Jan 30 15:40:08 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Horridus ]
Agreed, unfortunantly....time and time again motivated people have started groups such as the ones you refer to only to have them fizzle from lack of membership involvement or chronic infighting. It often makes me wonder if it's just bad luck, perception, or if there's a "link" between herp keepers and loner mentality. I include myself in this of course because I'm not out there beating down the doors of local lawmakers when my fellow enthusiests are being threatened in another state. It certainly makes us easy targets for those who would want to see then end of animal keeping as a whole...I don't understand how there always seems to be a powerful lobby working for the raptor, big cat, and primate people (you wouldn't think there were THAT many private people keeping raptors for example)...but when legistlation or misinformation is rampant rarely does anyone speak up in the herp community. Perhaps those groups have done a pretty good job of policing themselves? Things have been changing recently, so perhaps there are better things on the horizon. I hope you didn't take it as a personal attack, I had no idea of the denisty of regius populations until I looked into it...it seemed to me that the numbers didn't jive with a sustainable harvest...but, apparently they do.
Horridus
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RE: controlled? - Horridus, Tue Jan 30 15:40:08 2007