I'm not sure that a petition is the best way to go in such a case.

I signed it, but jusdging from my experiance a petition os only good for one thing and that is to gather peoples attention.

Thants beneficial but in order to try to turn the situaton around it is perhaps better to organise the organisations.



The herpetological organisations as well as the National amphibian and reptile owners alliance (NAROA) and perhaps the larger organisations in the pet trade industry should have the best chances of influencing the descisionmakers.



In Europe Several of the large herpetological organisations formed a new organisation called EUFORA which works thise types of problems.



Use Norway as a bad example. We have a herp ban here and all it does is to criminalize herpetoculturists and leading to the death of animals confiscated by the police. In addition people who keep herps here are often afraid to see a vet in fear of loosing their animals to the government.



Regards

obeligz

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