Are Fly river turtles illigal now?

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lix.ma14

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i know that in the US, they are protected by CITIES but í'm not that sure about Canada. They are still sold in Kijiji (like craigslist). I phone a bunch of LPS and they all said that they can't get them anymore. Just less than a year ago, they still had them for sale. I remember 2 years ago, they had them for sale for only 200 bucksat 6 inches! I saw a kijiji post where they are selling hatchlings for $200. I tried phoning them around 20 times but they never picked up. I assumed they were busted for illegal smuggling.

Can anyone tell me the statues for these turtles? i can still get one for 600 bucks but that's pretty expensive,
 
Im pretty sure that they are no longer being imported but you can buy captive bred ones still in canada. Unless something has changed very recently.

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Canada can import captive raised from malasia i believe. 600 is not a lot the price has gone up considerably and are astronimacal in the US because we can not import the captive born
 
All countries where the FRT is native have banned all trade in live FRTs. All available hatchlings are illegal imports.

BTW, there are zero captive bred hatchlings available since there are zero captive breeders (except for an accidental zoo breeding resulting in 2 hatched eggs a decade ago).
 
Oddball said:
All countries where the FRT is native have banned alltrade in live FRTs. All available hatchlings are illegal imports.

BTW, there are zero captive bred hatchlings available since there are zero captive breeders (except for an accidental zoo breeding resulting in 2 hatched eggs a decade ago).
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Oddball,

I am not disagreeing with you as i have not looked into it in a while, but i thought they collected eggs in Malaysia then hatched and sold as captive born to get around the restrictions to countries other than the us?

And if you are correct i guess i should break down and buy one of the few still available...
 
Not Malaysia. The last country that permitted live hatchling exports was Indonesia. Earlier this year, Indonesia followed Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Mainland China in banning all trade in live FRTs. Indonesia still allows egg nest harvesting for food markets. Any hatchings from egg collections are to be ignored if at the nest sites or the hatchlings hatched in transit remain in the food markets and are not permitted to be exported out of the country.
 
Oddball said:
Not Malaysia. The last country that permitted live hatchling exports was Indonesia. Earlier this year, Indonesia followed Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Mainland China in banning all trade in live FRTs. Indonesia still allows egg nest harvesting for food markets. Any hatchings from egg collections are to be ignored if at the nest sites or the hatchlings hatched in transit remain in the food markets and are not permitted to be exported out of the country.
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Thanks, sorry meant indo, not malays.... Well I guess i am FRT shopping.
 
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