Dixon1990 Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 Are there any lizards that you can find wild in CHCH that you are allowed to keep as pets? If there are what are they and where do you find them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 I don't think that there are any lizards, native, that you can keep in NZ without a licence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted June 10, 2007 Report Share Posted June 10, 2007 it is illegal to keep any of the native lizards without a permit. The only lizards around Chch are the common skink, McCann's skink, spotted skink, common gecko, and the jewelled gecko on the peninula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 The info I found regarding this said you could keep the common skink without a permit, and one of the conditions of obtaining a permit was that you had done so and proved you could keep them sucessfully for one year. Not sure how old/valid that info was tho... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Anyone know where to get fire bellied newts from in chch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 pet world says they do on there website http://www.petworld.co.nz/ Fire Newts in Stock Now !!! $119.00 each at Ferry Road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 that has been on the site for years and years. they never change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilson Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 oh........ :lol: thats slack :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon1990 Posted June 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 yea i emailed them about six times last year within about 3 months and they didnt email back once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 The info I found regarding this said you could keep the common skink without a permit, and one of the conditions of obtaining a permit was that you had done so and proved you could keep them sucessfully for one year. Not sure how old/valid that info was tho... There is a person here in the Bay that keeps the common brown skink and apparently you now definately need a permit to keep them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 a few years back there were four native lizards that were unprotected -- the common gecko, forest gecko, common skink, and I think the fourth was the copper skink from the North Island -- but now all are fully-protected. The main reason for this was that on the one hand people were legally exporting these species to collectors overseas and mixing protected ones in with them; and on the other hand, locals were catching them for sale to pet shops in ridiculous numbers, often destroying the habitat in the process (especially after common geckos on Banks Peninsula where they would rip slabs off boulders with crowbars to get at the geckos sheltering in the cracks). Because the geckos are very slow to reproduce this was decimating the populations, and in the case of the common geckos in particular it has now been determined that rather than one nation-wide species it is actually a species-complex (for example, the common gecko in Canterbury is a different species to the one in Wellington, and so on). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 We have hundreds of aussie skinks running around at work, any laws about keeping them without a permit?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 the rainbow skinks aren't protected, being an introduced species, but I believe DoC or MAF or someone has deemed it illegal to possess them because they were getting released into new areas by people. (Perhaps only illegal to sell or distribute them, rather than just keep them, I'm not sure exactly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Hi hope this helps this from a 2006 department of conversation pdf The rainbow skink is an introduced species that is now well established in parts of the North Island. It may pose a threat to native skinks through competition. At present it is not listed on any schedule making it absolutely protected. Adding this species to Schedule 5 would make removal of rainbow skinks from undesired locations easier and allow regional councils to specify the rainbow skink as a pest in regional pest management strategies. It would also make it legal to gather this species from the wild (currently illegal). What are your views? - Being smaller and an egg layer would probably be a food source, this from this doc pdf http://www.reptiles.org.nz/Permitsandanimals.pdf Lampropholis Skink delicata Australian Rainbow - permit category A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Department of conversation??? :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick777 Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 Department of conversation??? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Is this a new way the government discovered to spend our taxpayer's money? :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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