Re: Pet shop or stew pot? Is cities helping?

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Posted by Bob on July 05, 2000 at 21:41:51:

In Reply to: Pet shop or stew pot? Is cities helping? posted by Tom on July 05, 2000 at 16:33:49:

Keep in mind that CITES as well as most inter and intranational conservation legislation was drafted in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The world was a very different place then. We would likely all concur, that almost any animal was "better off in the wild". Not so now. Multi national commodity corporations, mega civil engineering projects and convertible currencies beg the axiom, "there is no wild left"! CITES is archaic and toothless. I suspect in the not too distant future (the next geneeration) we will be asking, why did the Western countries almost exclusively enforce CITES when the food market countries and home range countries ignore these treaties to the obvious detriment of the indigenous species?????? What folly, how unforgiveable that MANY species, could have received, albeit captive, genetic survival insurance had some real forsight and courage been demonstrated. The enforcers of these laws will have these extinctions on their conscience in time.

Remember the forest fires in Indonesia a few years ago? Or how about the logging concession in one of Indonesia's National Parks sold to a Japanese company by one of Suharto's sons? What myriad of species will be wiped out by China's Three Rivers Dam project? Get caught by USF&W bringing in one of any CITES animal within the range of any of these projects and see what happens!!!!

Species protection, conservation or politics and greed? You decied the value of CITES.

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: Keep in mind that CITES as well as most inter and intranational conservation legislation was drafted in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The world was a very different place then. We would likely all concur, that almost any animal was "better off in the wild". Not so now. Multi national commodity corporations, mega civil engineering projects and convertible currencies beg the axiom, "there is no wild left"! CITES is archaic and toothless. I suspect in the not too distant future (the next geneeration) we will be asking, why did the Western countries almost exclusively enforce CITES when the food market countries and home range countries ignore these treaties to the obvious detriment of the indigenous species?????? What folly, how unforgiveable that MANY species, could have received, albeit captive, genetic survival insurance had some real forsight and courage been demonstrated. The enforcers of these laws will have these extinctions on their conscience in time. : Remember the forest fires in Indonesia a few years ago? Or how about the logging concession in one of Indonesia's National Parks sold to a Japanese company by one of Suharto's sons? What myriad of species will be wiped out by China's Three Rivers Dam project? Get caught by USF&W bringing in one of any CITES animal within the range of any of these projects and see what happens!!!! : Species protection, conservation or politics and greed? You decied the value of CITES.

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