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Originally Posted by crocdoc
I've seen this lame argument used to support the WC industry before, but never from a reasonably educated person. I am, to be perfectly honest, shocked and surprised. Are you seriously unable to determine the difference between these two scenarios?
1. Remove half a dozen individuals from the wild, breed them and then continue to supply the hobby through generation after generation of hundreds (if not thousands) of CB offspring, without the need to remove more animals out of the wild.
2. Continue to remove thousands of animals out of the wild, year after year after year, with a large number dying in transport and few surviving after they reach the end user.
The other factor I haven't mentioned is that CB animals fare better in captivity, so there's a higher survival rate than with WC.
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Well I was actually implying number 1, not a full blown import/export industry to the pet trade , just that the CB has to start somewhere and not removing any wild animals wouldn't allow for it. (I tried to hint at that with the permit thing). I guess it also has application in zoo's for educational purposes, or for introducing variety into the gene pool, surely half a dozen would possibly show genetic defects after that much inbreeding. Again, I was didn't intend to use that as a reason to support a full blown WC trade, just the literal meaning of taking a wild caught animal into captivity.
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