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Boa, you are MOST welcome to come up with a list of your own, please feel free to add to the list of positives if you can, I welcome the debate. The community as a whole has the right (and the obligation) to decide what should be done for the common good, not in all circumstances, but certainly in some. Why do we have laws which, to use your example from yesterday, dictate the speed of cars in built-up areas, manage the distribution of (most) handguns in the community, or attempt to control drugs? Those regulations are imposed for the common good at the request of the community, some of them work pretty well, some of them some of the time, and some of then not very well at all. But sadly Boa, life is not, and can't be, a free-for-all because some people lack the judgement not to impose on others.
But that's actually getting off the track a bit, as I said, please put your arguments up here as I've done, rather than commenting more on the way I've done it. I've asked you previously to tell me how it would be managed to prevent the problems arising, but all I get is comments about how one-eyed I am...
It might surprise you that I'm actually not a pro-legislation person - resort to legal avenues would ALWAYS be a final option in my book, and after 40 odd years in a bureaucracy associated with wildlife management, nobody is more aware than I am about how they operate, and what their agendas are. I do think that the fauna laws in Australia are poorly thought out and rarely work to the benefit of the fauna the laws are designed to protect. I do think that keepers should have access to more material, even wild-caught, because a limited or managed take does far less harm to wild populations than the wholesale habitat destruction we see every day. Collecting from roads is a perfect way to collect animals which would otherwise meet it's demise, for example... So I'm certainly not ready to go down the legislation path without a good deal of thought...
My dislike of hybridising is based on consideration of the possibilities, and the facts as I understand them, but I'm a pragmatic man, and if you can demostrate to me that the benefits outweigh the negatives, I'm with youall the way :mrgreen: .
AND, just to prove I'm a beautiful, even-handed man, I heard THIS VERY MORNING of a potential carpondro breeding in one of the southern states THIS VERY SEASON, so if you're interested Boa, I'll keep you posted... How's that???
You can't get better than that!
Jamie.
But that's actually getting off the track a bit, as I said, please put your arguments up here as I've done, rather than commenting more on the way I've done it. I've asked you previously to tell me how it would be managed to prevent the problems arising, but all I get is comments about how one-eyed I am...
It might surprise you that I'm actually not a pro-legislation person - resort to legal avenues would ALWAYS be a final option in my book, and after 40 odd years in a bureaucracy associated with wildlife management, nobody is more aware than I am about how they operate, and what their agendas are. I do think that the fauna laws in Australia are poorly thought out and rarely work to the benefit of the fauna the laws are designed to protect. I do think that keepers should have access to more material, even wild-caught, because a limited or managed take does far less harm to wild populations than the wholesale habitat destruction we see every day. Collecting from roads is a perfect way to collect animals which would otherwise meet it's demise, for example... So I'm certainly not ready to go down the legislation path without a good deal of thought...
My dislike of hybridising is based on consideration of the possibilities, and the facts as I understand them, but I'm a pragmatic man, and if you can demostrate to me that the benefits outweigh the negatives, I'm with youall the way :mrgreen: .
AND, just to prove I'm a beautiful, even-handed man, I heard THIS VERY MORNING of a potential carpondro breeding in one of the southern states THIS VERY SEASON, so if you're interested Boa, I'll keep you posted... How's that???
You can't get better than that!
Jamie.