exotics
I believe enforcement needs to get tougher if there is to be ANY impact on the trade of exotics in Australia. Authorities need to get creative in terms of discouraging the public from even considering owning an "illegal" animal. The current laws and policing practices being what they are, it would be easy to keep an exotic pet without the autorities ever finding out you had one. Or two. Or three. From what i gather from various other threads on this forum, controlling the exotic population and its growth has become somewhat of a farce (no disrespect to the staff of relevant agencies, many times its a matter of faulty policy or lack of resources).
Hell, i'd risk owning an exotic, but if they start including mandatory jail time (however short) or banning herp ownership for life as a penalty i might reconsider.
