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25Jun/090
Senate EPW Hearing- HR669/S373 Reptile Ban!
Just in from USARK...
WARNING: Senate EPW Hearing- HR669/S373 Reptile Ban!
The Senate Committee on the Environment & Public Works (EPW) is planning a hearing for the 8th of July following the holiday break. The Committee Chair is Senator Barbara Boxer (D) of California. It will actually be a joint hearing in front of two subcommittees; Senate Water & Wildlife and the EPW Oversight. The topic for discussion will be Threats to Native Wildlife Species. We believe this will be a precursor to the introduction of a new Senate version of HR669. S373 will also likely be discussed. Although we do not want to assume her position, Senator Boxer has strong historical ties to the Animal Rights and Environmental movements that are pushing for this hearing.
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19Jun/090
Florida Bans Commercial Harvest Of Fresh Water Turtles
Florida banned commercial harvests of freshwater turtles Wednesday, saying that foreign demand threatened to damage whole turtle populations.
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6Jun/090
The End of An Era
At least I think so. Recently Rich Zuchowski of SerpenCo announced his retirement. While this in and of itself was not surprising given that Rich is an open honest person about his business. You could tell he would be retiring soon. Below was the letter he sent out on May 25, 2009 disclosing his plans to retire...
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27May/090
Senator Nelson Press Conference on Python Ban S373
Senator Nelson, Fl, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, and Florida Governor Charlie Crist are holding a joint news conference to address invasive species in the Everglades. USARK believes this is an effort to raise awareness about S373 (the python ban) and position it as a solution to feral Burmese Pythons in the Everglades. USARK opposes S373 and maintains that passage of this bill would fail to address the issue of pythons in the Everglades. There is not a shred of scientific evidence to support that this bill would have any effect whatsoever on the Everglades. This bill is extremely short and could pass the Senate with very little consideration. If it gains the impetus to move forward it's effects on hobbyists, breeders, zoos, animal outreach programs and the Herp industry overall would be devastating.
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19May/090
Komodo Dragons Found Venemous
In a recent study Bryan Fry of the University of Melbourne in Australia, removed what seems to be a venom gland from a terminally ill Komodo Dragon in the zoo.
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14May/090
NC Senate Passes S307
Today we received notification that the North Carolina Senate has passed the S307 bill which is a bill designed to Regulate Use and Ownership of Certain Reptiles in North Carolina.
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11May/090
Some Updates and Twitter!
I've done a few updates coding on the back end as well as adding some plugins. Ontop of that the First Aid Kit has seen an update. Pictures are now included. You can click on any item and get a quick visual representation of exactly what the item looks like!
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24Apr/090
HR669 Goes Down!
As per USARK...
VICTORY over HR669!!!
WE DID IT FOLKS!!!! Victory over HR669! You can thank yourselves and the Reptile Nation, for a hard fought Victory! Our nearly 50,000 grassroots letters and 1,000s of phone calls to the offices of the subcommittee members clearly prevailed at today's Insular Affairs Subcommittee hearing on HR 669. HR 669 in it's current form is finished. For anything to go forward it MUST be re-written from the ground up....and USARK will have a seat at the table along with other stake holders.
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18Apr/090
Petsmart Vocalizes Against HR 669
Four days before the in-house committee meets to discuss HR 669 the well known pet company Petsmart is vocalizing it's disagreement with HR669. This would affect them as badly as any other business that deals in non-native animals. Read more here.
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16Apr/090
Proof That HR 669 Is A Threat
Yes, it is a real threat, so real that in Connecticut they have already changed their species ban laws. Below is the full bill as of October 1st this will be going into effect.
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