dpedwards08
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You have my idealogy all mixed up. Here is my idealogy. There are people in other parts of the world that appreciate your wildlife and will never get the opportunity to travel to Australia and see Australian wildlife in its natural environment. A plane ticket to Australia is in the thousands of dollars. Those people can make a positive contribution to the future of these species if only they are educated about them. The export of them can help educate people and possibly want to contribute to the future well being of these species. I have only ever seen one Inland Taipan in a zoo, and I’ve been to a lot of zoos and seen the back rooms in the reptile buildings. The Inland Taipan is the most venomous land animal in the world. That species should be able to be viewed and studied more by the public. That is a conservation tool. At the same time, it can help the Australian economy. I'm not saying that Australia has a bad economy like the United States, but you can never have too much money and reptile export would contribute to Australia's economy, probably in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I don't know if this is a good example or not, but I will use bearded dragons as an example. They will probably never go extinct. Why? Part is due in fact that there are thousands, if not millions, of them bred in captivity, and a lot, if not the majority, are bred in the United States. And get this, the first breeding stock was probably smuggled!
Yes, collette's black snake and red bellied black snake bites require the use of black snake antivenin and taipan bites require the use of taipan antivenin made by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL). We have that antivenin in the United States. Antivenin can be exported from Australia and imported into the United States. What you may not understand is that a couple of Yank and European hobbyists breeding them in cages is contributing to the conservation of those species whether you realize it or not. If Blacks around Sydney would number in the hundreds of thousands, than what damage would export do. If there was a quota system put on the number of snakes legally allowed to be exported, whether they were wild caught or captive born, than what difference would it make?
Conservation comes from the word conserve which means to keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. How isn't breeding reptiles in captivity, keeping in safety and protecting from harm, decay, loss, or destruction? How about that new taipan species, Oxyuranus temporalis. There have only been five specimens discovered and recorded of that species. Two of those five were sent to a zoo in Australia. Gee, I wonder why? Venom research and you guessed it, CAPTIVE BREEDING/STUDY! Do you think the zoo has no conservation reasons behind taking 2/5 of the known wild population of that species and bringing them into captivity?
There might even be more Central Ranges Taipans (Oxyuranus temporalis) bred in the United States since 2009, than there have been wild specimens discovered in Australia, but you will never know
Yes, collette's black snake and red bellied black snake bites require the use of black snake antivenin and taipan bites require the use of taipan antivenin made by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL). We have that antivenin in the United States. Antivenin can be exported from Australia and imported into the United States. What you may not understand is that a couple of Yank and European hobbyists breeding them in cages is contributing to the conservation of those species whether you realize it or not. If Blacks around Sydney would number in the hundreds of thousands, than what damage would export do. If there was a quota system put on the number of snakes legally allowed to be exported, whether they were wild caught or captive born, than what difference would it make?
Conservation comes from the word conserve which means to keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction. How isn't breeding reptiles in captivity, keeping in safety and protecting from harm, decay, loss, or destruction? How about that new taipan species, Oxyuranus temporalis. There have only been five specimens discovered and recorded of that species. Two of those five were sent to a zoo in Australia. Gee, I wonder why? Venom research and you guessed it, CAPTIVE BREEDING/STUDY! Do you think the zoo has no conservation reasons behind taking 2/5 of the known wild population of that species and bringing them into captivity?
There might even be more Central Ranges Taipans (Oxyuranus temporalis) bred in the United States since 2009, than there have been wild specimens discovered in Australia, but you will never know
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