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Feds Move To Ban Pythons & Boas

This is no joke, please read and help the cause!!
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Jason A.
"Long time Herper, first year Breeder `07."
My 2008 Care Sheet & The BRB Stats. Username: brb@kingsnake.com

This is stupid, send your official comments to the fish and wildlife service (FWS) at regulations.gov at this link. If you click the view document and pick the second icon you can read a text version of the proposed regulation, at the bottom are specific questions FWS are interested in.......

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=SubmitComment&o=09000064803a565f

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Brad Chambers

The Avalanche has already started-it is too late for the pebbles to vote....

>>Feds Move To Ban Pythons & Boas

the funny thing, if you think about it, is the unintended outcome:

if they make it far harder/more costly to "export" boas and pythons from florida, what's gonna happen to hundreds (thousands? more?) of those animals? Suddenly a) their owners can't get the proper permits to ship them to customers out of state or b) owners suddenly just don't want them any more because their value has plummeted, because of the difficulty of moving them across state lines.

It's as if you've been saving bottles because there was a really lucrative market for them, and then the market collapses. You either throw the bottles away, or "recycle" them.

If owners KEEP breeding them but can't ship them as easily--or at all--the population IN the state will increase. And surely releases will, too. Remember this would be happening in Florida, in one of the few states in the nation that can sustain populations of at least some of those species in the wild. (Ban or restrict the shipment of boas and pythons into/out of Idaho, for example, and you probably won't have much effect on whether or not populations spring up in the wild there, to threaten native species. Exercise those same controls in Florida, and you're only making things worse. It could be a formula for disaster.

(having said that, I consider the wild populations of burmese pythons--and other non-native reptile, amphibian, avian, etc. species) in south florida to be a very serious problem, one we as herpers should be concerned about. I'm just not sure what the solution is, and i'm not sure this proposal constitutes a solution at all).

imho

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