You're going to tell me that someone who turned up the second of only two officially (scientifically) documented guentheri doesn't know where to find Uroplatus?... And someone that is currently isolating microsatellites from various natural populations of several Uroplatus spp. can't find them?... Funny... Badly informed and funny...



And I'll tell you exactly how they import such large numbers... Several hundred people with 2,000 watt halides are looking for them!... Why?... because they can make a buck... I'm not sure if you know this, buts its a common practice to go into villages and ask locals to take you DIRECTLY to stuff that you would otherwise have no clue about...



You explain to me why Uroplatus are becoming less and less available?... and please explain to me why we are even having a discussion about Uroplatus in regard to CITES?... Like I said, I'm not trying to start an argument here, but anyone that thinks that there is an endless supply of ANYTHING in this world is as ignorant as they come... Leah stated it best...



I am not one to insinuate, but it seems to me that you have no concept of conservation... Oh, or it is just because they import so many of them that that must mean there are thousands... No wait, hundreds of thousands more just climbing, jumping and running around all over Madagascar begging to be added to the next shipment... And before they were added to CITES there must have been millions?!...
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