Fry?



Why fry falcons?

" Is there a huge movement by special interests to ban ownership of falcons? "

Actually I think there is, some of the proponents imclude;



Aresco and company in Florida, Fitzgerald and company in Texas, Rodda and company USGS, Snow and company south Florida, NSF, Defenders of Wildlife, Ken Dodd and HSUS, Box Turtle Partnership, The Nature Conservancy, AZA, PARC (Model Herp Regs and many members), Jim Staurt NMG&F, Sean Barry Cali somewhere, Bruce Bury northwest, PETA, RSPCA (UK), WSPA(Europe), Pro Wildlife(Germany), Dyrevernalliansen (Norway), ENDCAP (Europe) and many more, each country has a bunch of them. Problem is they all cooperate to wreck havoc in national and international legislation, they are kinda like larvae of rhino beetles, chewing tunnels through the ethics of the law.



I think the essence of self regulation is happening right here in this thread, in other forums on kingsnake and on other reptile sites. Self regulation is also baked into most of the herpetological litterature.

Even though reptiles illegal in Norway, there is still a significant degree of self regulation.

You can´t just sell your offspring to any idiot because if he gets caught keeping illegal reptiles, and he rats you out, then you get caught and the whole making of money backfires to the point where all your herps gets confiscated and frozen alive (that is the equivalent of burning mammals alive), and you get a hefty fine, and you are ridiculed in the newspaper, if you live in a small town everyone in town will be talking about you and your whole family behind your backs.

Therefore over the course of friendly debate on reptile forums we have generally come in agreement of code of conduct and through norwegian litterature we define the minimum standards. Since we are all criminals in the eyes of society we cannot rely on police when problems arise. Last year we had a funny guy who threatened to report to the authority several other terrarium folks. This created a tension for several days, no one really wanted to harm the guy but people also felt such threats could not be tolerated. If people got the impression that turning in your fellow reptile keeper can be toerated in our reptile comminity, it wiyld bean the death of thousands and thousands of animals every year. In the end he situation was resolved that time, we were able to talk him to reason. Had he ratted out up to 30 reptile owners, as he claimed, I fear someone would have list his temper and cracked his head open, and everything would have gotten much worse.

I think self regulation also comes through the voice of all participants in a forum, they either inspire someone to answer them or sometimes contemplate on how things should be.



For instance, do you believe that animals have rights?





Regards

oby

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