Sorry but I am not uneducated....I have 4 yrs under my belt and a degree, and did all just to please others.

If it were me, I would have never gone through 4 yrs of university.

But either way, I am not uneducated and for you to make a statement like that is just a simple tactic to discredit me....

Sorry if I do not care about punctuation, or capitalizing where I should, or not.

I really dont care...I am typing simple words.....I can also type all these words an miss one letter in almost every one that is more than two syllables and you can understand it completely.

Its the human mind.

You do not read letter by letter, but by segments.

Anyways, enough of the B.S.

you are not taking into account and not thinking deep enough on what I have been writing.

You just said if they are uncommon for me to have had 40 or so Guentheri, (oops I capitalized it again!) that must show how rare they are.

Well lets see I am not the only customer/importer of uroplatus.....there are dozens and dozens of others who i have personally seen import these same animals.

We also have the japs who get alot of guentheri cause they pay alot more than we do. And you also have the Europeans(oops I capitalized the "a" and and I could have written a run on sentence or I could have used a different word to start of this sentence, oh no!)....who buy alot of them as well......I am by no means a big importer.......I know of others who have had close to 200 guentheri.....and they came in with guentheri paperwork....that is only one other importer....granted they are rarer to the person with limited man power to search for them, and limited means to get to where they REALLY are.....

you would be surprised where some of the guentheri have been found(street lights where available, palm fronds, etc)

Now since you are much more educated, in your opinion, why don't you look for different reasons than just staying firm on one stance......in the long run the island is doomed anyways......if you stop the importation of these animals and others what are the people whose lives must be sustained...????? they are going to do the next viable alternative, slash and burn and kill all the geckos anyways....its a lose lose in the very very very long run.....but atleast in the earlier stages we can start founding stock and fix all the hinderances we have now of breeding these guys to their fullest potential.....would it be good that they close tommorow for export, and we have such limited stock to work with......how are we as hobbyists, going to sustain something that is doomed int he wild....I think it would show a message to the people like you that wow, these "uneducated" people can actually do something like breed uroplatus in such a way as to ensure their suvival even if the whole island sinks.....

well anyways, think beyond today, look towards tommorow......if it weren't for us they would be doomed for sure.....

we are just making a buck, and at the same time helping a species from going out....becuase by starting now....we can establish exact protocols for breeding.....we have stronger bloodlines to ensure genetic diversity for many decades to come....now is the time to learn, because in 25-50 years , where do YOU think uroplatus will be considering the massive decline of the island...I know we can agree on that...the island is doomed....no helping that.......nd more and more people being born and needing to make money to live.....you cannot fight that.....as always people come first to anything else.....to me it bothers me cause I do not believe so, but it is a socially acceptable issue....people first

So just try to explain the saving of so many different habitats for so many different uroplatus.....it is not going to happen....

they will be wiped out sooner or later, and I am glad I can say that I brought in a massive number before that will happen to ensure that in the long run, they will still be existant.

Think about it....
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