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Katrina
at Fri Mar 21 15:23:33 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Katrina ]
Notice I said "commercial harvesting". I won't argue about aquatic turtles, because I don't know enough about thier population dynamics in the wild, but for box turtles, I'm confident enough to say that the harvesting of wild box turtles for direct sale to the general public is not sustainable.
If a population can't sustain a certain percentage of adult loss per year and the roads and subsidized predators are already taking that out, then you have no arguement for harvesting. Add in subsidized predators taking out a large percentage of the eggs/hatchlings for a population, and the situation gets even worse.
Katrina
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