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rodmalm
at Fri May 7 23:04:00 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rodmalm ]
The San Francisco garter snake for example (which is bred in Europe)would be common in collections if it were not on the endangered list. Instead it's small habitat is being destroyed and it's fate is questionable at best. Being on the list prevents any attempts by the American public to breed this species.
This is true for many other species as well. For instance, why would a breeder want to jump through all the hoops to breed an endangered animal (permits/inspections/extra expenses with both/licenses/etc.) when he could breed a very similar animal without all the problems associated with breeding the former?
Why do many animals almost disappear from their native habitat once exporting them becomes illegal? Because they then have no value to the native people anymore, and their habitat is then used for other purposes, and the native people no longer protect what once was their means of income.
What's really funny is to see how the environmentalists go nuts when an animals is taken off the endangered species list! Are they happy because the animal is doing so well that it is no longer endangered? Nope, they yell and scream and want it put back on!
And then again, we get back to computer models to predict numbers of species extinctions, which is more utter nonsense. And then there all the frauds by environmental groups, that we all end up paying for in the end, that we know have been directly attributable to the endangered species act.
Rodney
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Absolutely right again. - rodmalm, Fri May 7 23:04:00 2004