I have noticed when looking at video of outdoor markets in 3rd world countries (and seeing a few myself). Those markets are all packed full of rare, and quickly disappearing species, every day, alive and or dead, for sale to anyone who wants them. The authorities dont care, they are walking around sampling the smorgasbord themselves.
So I figure if you combined in a country such as Thailand all outdoor markets, all petstores, and restraunts, combined with the instances of locals eating rare species in their home countries you would see thousands per day being killed or taken from the wild.
In countries outside their borders, you may see a handful every 6 months of these species, so what does it really matter when you see 20 black waters in the last 5 years available, nothing. It doesnt accomplish saving or even helping to save the species, the country that has them as wildlife needs to save them within its borders.

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• Black Water Monitor - Sighthunter, Sun Oct 21 21:05:28 2007
• RE: Black Water Monitor - mrcota, Mon Oct 22 01:32:09 2007
• RE: So how come - FR, Mon Oct 22 09:20:06 2007
• This is why - mrcota, Tue Oct 23 02:36:23 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 09:42:04 2007
• RE: This is why - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 12:06:13 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 13:14:21 2007
• I must have missed the slander... - qiksilver5, Tue Oct 23 16:07:31 2007
• RE: No it was not slander, yet - FR, Tue Oct 23 16:55:29 2007
• RE: No it was not slander, yet - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 18:19:49 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Tue Oct 23 18:19:57 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Tue Oct 23 20:01:38 2007
• RE: This is why - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 21:31:59 2007
• RE: This is why - mrcota, Thu Oct 25 04:41:07 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Thu Oct 25 08:41:51 2007
• RE: This is why - mrcota, Thu Oct 25 10:08:40 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Thu Oct 25 10:59:31 2007
• RE: This is why - wstreps, Thu Oct 25 15:00:00 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Thu Oct 25 19:13:10 2007
• Maybe the problem is a Thai issue. - SHvar, Fri Oct 26 11:33:19 2007
• RE: Maybe the problem is a Thai issue. - FR, Fri Oct 26 18:00:59 2007
• How about this.. - SHvar, Sat Oct 27 11:25:26 2007
• FR, you know.. - SHvar, Sun Oct 28 11:14:29 2007
• RE: This is why - monitormanUK, Fri Oct 26 06:23:14 2007
• RE: This is why - MadAxeMan, Fri Oct 26 07:54:41 2007
• RE: This is why - FR, Fri Oct 26 10:46:06 2007
• The problems with laws. - SHvar, Tue Oct 23 22:27:34 2007
• Bribe? - Sighthunter, Wed Oct 24 01:01:24 2007
• A link - Sighthunter, Wed Oct 24 11:34:13 2007
• RE: A link - MikesMonitors, Wed Oct 24 12:18:49 2007
• Dibbs!!! - woodsrider, Mon Oct 22 09:48:55 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 12:56:58 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - woodsrider, Tue Oct 23 15:28:45 2007
• RE: Dibbs!!! - Sighthunter, Tue Oct 23 18:08:36 2007