LEGISLATIVE ALERT!!!
We are officially under attack fellow herpers. An attack the magnitude of which we have never faced before.
Two bills have been introduced into congress within the last two weeks. If passed they will virtually destroy the reptile keeping hobby overnight. All boas and pythons will instantly become illegal to possess, let alone breed, sell, or transport across state lines.
The threat resulting from the situation in the Everglades that we have been afraid of is upon us.
H.R. 669 and S.373 are the two bills that are aiming to be the death of the reptile hobby.
I’m not going to go into detail about it here on the blog, this situation is important enough that I wrote page dedicated to it. You can read it here http://www.arbreptiles.com/lastword/legislation.shtml
Everyone needs to contact their congressmen about these bills and encourage them to vote no. These bills if passed will make nearly all of us criminals overnight. even if you only keep colubrids of you’re strictly a frog keeper, you are still potentially affected by this legislation. H.R. 669 is open ended and can potentially have any species added to the list at any time.
Clay :: Feb.07.2009 :: Herp News, Reptile Related ::
