Gecko smugglers sentenced
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/gecko-smugglers-jailed-4159068
It will be a cold winter in prison for two German men who admitted travelling to New Zealand to plunder native wildlife.
56-year-old Dieter Ernst and 47-year-old Thorsten Richartz have been sentenced to four and half months in prison, for attempting to smuggle out rare geckos.
They admitted taking four jewelled geckos from two sites in Otago, and one on Banks Peninsula.
D.O.C's Robin Thomas says the illegal trade in rare New Zealand geckos does not seem to be going away.
It is estimated there are just five-thousand of the species left in the wild
then get to the shop and find someone else has bought it in the meantime :evil:
you ask got anymore coming in
the guy in the shop says :dunno:
you go :facepalm:
so you go home and have a :tears:
:smln:
:sage:
it is called marketing
fancy name to match the fancy prices
or do they just sell with the name the wholesaler supplied
how many lfs are actually run by people who really know their fish
The truth probably is that he died of pneumonia in a cave in afganistan about 5 yrs ago
and this story is just to cover up the money they have wasted since then looking for him
vaguely think it was selling milk, that and the "Good boy Boris" one seem to be linked in the
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sorry where was i, oh yes the cow ads :sage:
nice post davidr, future project is a 5 metre in the same style
have a reef, trop marine fish only, bichir tank set up so far
building a 1,000 litre rockpool