Silver Arows may be banned in coming years!

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eel_seeker said:
how some species of box turtles are have been depleted so much (also due to development) they have been banned to be kept as pets in their own indigenous states.
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Now this is something I cannot comprehend. In Buenos Aires it is legal to keep snakeheads, African frogs, Asian carps, etc etc etc, but not a Tegu. We are allowed to keep several exotic, potentially invasive species (creating a danger of biological contamination) but not the native ones. :shakehead

I think it is absurd. If you get skunk or racoon for a pet, you might not be able to give it "the proper care", and I am not saying it itsn't important, but it will have a positive effect on the survival of the species and there is no danger of biological contamination. Plus it would have this "promotional" effect in favour of a native species. Big mistake to make it illegal.:shakehead
 
if the price becomes higher then the killing of brooders will just be more profitable to native harvesters and will just worsen the problem. in any case i hope something is done to address this. this is certainly bad news for our bros....heads up Delgado! LOL!
 
Del, those fisher-folks dont care. before they used to sell the huge males in the market for eating but then they just abandoned that altogether! selling and killing is faster and more profitable. plus these people have not been educated about conservation, unlike singapore farms where they expect future profits from breeding the fishes regularly. these natives are not breeders, they just go in the jungle, collect and sell....really very sad. ive seen a footage of two indians bang a male silver with a paddle and pick up the little babies and put them in a rusty tin can...you really dont wanna see bro, believe me....
 
To bad we cant have sum kind of law about buying fish. Like u can only buy certain fish if u have certain tanks.

Such as

10g = Guppys, Mollies, and other small fish
55g = African cichlids, Guppys, Mollies, and other small fish
100g = Oscars(and others around this size), african cichlids, guppy
and so on
 
:banhim: Let's hope you are joking FlamingWoodChuck.

kriztu said:
if the price becomes higher then the killing of brooders will just be more profitable to native harvesters and will just worsen the problem.
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Exactly. Let alone that nobody bothered to explain how it is they intend to make the price go up.
 
yea i saw that article, although im not sure if they will be banned or how long it will take
 
Face it, we are dealing with pets that hail from 3rd world countries where survival is a way of life even for humans. Those from places like the USA have never seen the plight or smelled the stench of these places. It comes down to educating the native people, there's a group call "Madagascar Fauna Group", their goal it to stop the extinction of lemurs, same situation in that country. First and foremost, they teach the people other ways to find food, harvest, provide clean drinking water, etc.

We have food, a roof over our heads and know we'll probably eat tomorrow. The people in these remote places dont have that. They will do anything to get that. Arowana's feed them or make them money. We are all involved from catching them to having them in our Aquariums. Human Impact. So, it's a time to pull together and address the problem, I can't imagine there aren't already research projects funded by universities. It's easy tp play with our pets and type our thoughts into the computer.

The real world is cold, hard and cruel. People are responsible for so many extinctions, granted unaware until it was too late in most cases.

It would break my heart to watch something so beautiful and precious go extinct in my lifetime. I think the killing of these males is horrible. the only answer is education which takes time. Darwinism has turned to humanism.
 
It would be great if there was a project to teach those collectors responsible collecting techniques like what they are trying to do to stop the coral reef destruction by saltwater collectors.Having a way to document fish were collected by approved methods then sold through channels that could ensure the fish that were collected this way were the ones you actually bought would be a better option.
Teaching the collectors that thier livlyhood depends on not driving the aros into extinction,and keepers that buying a "tagged" approved fish is a better purchase is the route that has the best chance of working out
 
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