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solar 17
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Are our state wildlife authorities relevant?
l beginning to think they are a waste of time and "our" money. For one in QLD. THEY DUCK ALL THE MAJOR ISSUES and muck around on a lot of others only to pick on and pubilicize how they have busted some person with an ilegal carpet when in real life there is one in every second roof in SE QLD.
On another point there are probably 1000 road kills for eveyone taken from the wild.
On another point when was the last time you saw someone prosecuted for killing a snake with a shovel and yet the herper who has an unlicensed carpet that is giving it heat, food and shelter is thrown to the wolves and boy oh boy don't the authorities run to the papers with that story.
l am not advocating open slather on the wild population, because unless you live under a mushroom there are always going to be snakes/reptiles taken from the wild.
Personally l don't like wild caught reptiles having purchased a few, years back on licence (NT)as 90+% doen't eat and a lot stress sure some are ok.
l am beginning to think that if licences were relaxed the playing field would balance itself,
Take the Carpets years back they were most herpers bread butter now apart from the hypos and morphs few people own them "compared to 10-15 years ago"
No and l will say it you see a few nature police on the internet yelling "dob him in" for some guys imo minor offence for reptile keeping, no l am beginning to think after talking in the last few days to some long term highly experienced reptile keepers these authorities have outstayed their use by day......and this doesn't mean l welcome imports either for those that like to read between the lines, but l am a fan of user pays export, but thats another subject.
.......solar 17 (Baden)
l beginning to think they are a waste of time and "our" money. For one in QLD. THEY DUCK ALL THE MAJOR ISSUES and muck around on a lot of others only to pick on and pubilicize how they have busted some person with an ilegal carpet when in real life there is one in every second roof in SE QLD.
On another point there are probably 1000 road kills for eveyone taken from the wild.
On another point when was the last time you saw someone prosecuted for killing a snake with a shovel and yet the herper who has an unlicensed carpet that is giving it heat, food and shelter is thrown to the wolves and boy oh boy don't the authorities run to the papers with that story.
l am not advocating open slather on the wild population, because unless you live under a mushroom there are always going to be snakes/reptiles taken from the wild.
Personally l don't like wild caught reptiles having purchased a few, years back on licence (NT)as 90+% doen't eat and a lot stress sure some are ok.
l am beginning to think that if licences were relaxed the playing field would balance itself,
Take the Carpets years back they were most herpers bread butter now apart from the hypos and morphs few people own them "compared to 10-15 years ago"
No and l will say it you see a few nature police on the internet yelling "dob him in" for some guys imo minor offence for reptile keeping, no l am beginning to think after talking in the last few days to some long term highly experienced reptile keepers these authorities have outstayed their use by day......and this doesn't mean l welcome imports either for those that like to read between the lines, but l am a fan of user pays export, but thats another subject.
.......solar 17 (Baden)