Quote Originally Posted by froghobbiest View Post
Well this is the first time I read something like this and I see alot of good points but ima put it like this; as with anything else they ban or make illegal people are still going to find a way to do it no matter what only to get rid of it years later. For example marijuana is illegal yet in some state its becoming legal..why?Ive witnessed first hand what it could do to your brain an ima be honest I use to smoke it but not no more. Anyway to pass this (in my opinion) is a waste of time. Im upfor making the world better but some things are pointless unless they really tend to enforce this to the full extent.
By that same logic, making a lot of things illegal is a waste of time. Afterall, no matter how hard we try some tinpot dictator out there will commit war crimes. No matter how illegal we make it, slavery will still happen! Then there is murder... afterall, that is what chytrid does to amphibian populations.

Chitrid is really nasty for frogs. Because of it, many of the frogs in Central America, as well as most of the ranids native to the pacific north west are extinct or on their way there. If we cannot tell ourselves that we need to curtail its spread, then we have no justification for having any environmental law whatsoever. Afterall, Chytrid was spread to the new world by hobbyists and biopharmaceutical companies.

These rules can be enforced the same way laws dealing with livestock are. The infrastructure is already in place it just needs to be expanded a bit. You will still have small scale illegal shipping by private individuals, but that is nothing like the commercial interstate transport that occurs right now. This will also encourage captive breeding, not curtail it. This is because it will become increasingly difficult and thus costly to collect amphibians commercially.

The whole reason dendrobatids are captive bred now is because they were being driven to extinction by commercial collection and habitat destruction and the cost to get them became so high people started breeding them.