Jim Himes wrote;
"Non-native animal species upset our ecosystems and cause damage to the environment. In addition to some other measures, the Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act (H.R. 669) would establish a risk assessment process and would prohibit the following actions: importation or transportation between states of nonnative species that are not included in the list of approved species; permit violations; and possession, purchase, sale, barter, release, or breeding of such species."

I would argue that Jim reasons on wrong premises, and therefore reaches absurd conclusions. I fail to see how poison frogs can have a negative impact on US most of US and especially Alaska, yet are targeted by HR669.

HR669 has the potential to decimate captive dartfrog populations in America. Some of the dartfrog speciesin american vivariums are severely threatened species. Some of the species we as a society keep in vivarium are already extinct in the wild. Do we not have moral a duty to cultivate in vivarium what we as a species have already extinct in the wild?
Vivariumculture is not a cure against extinctions. We are able to propagate almost any reptile or amphibian but maintaining responsible gene pools comes at a great cost. The responsible vivarium keeper will gladly pay to sustain his animals but the herpetocultural society of the world is not yet ready to cope with the extinction wave that has hit herptilian species in the blink of the past decade. In the next decade with certainty many more species will go extinct. We have already started to Identify some of them, those are our cashcows.

The animal rights industry and the pet industry have one thing in common, their history is paved with dead animals. In the future our industries will be paved with extinct species.
Implore congressmenn to make exeption to HR669 in regard to Extinct in the wild species.

But then, what about nearly extinct species?
Does a species need to be extinct in the wild to merit development of a reserve population in captivity?
I say, Congressmen who support HR669 support extinction of species!
2008 was termed year of the frog by the herpetological scientific community, yet in 2009 even US congressmen push endangered amphibian captive populations in the US toward extinction.

What says Jim Himes in reflect of this?

Regards
obeligz

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