axolotl-danio Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: can you legally catch and raise tadpoles from the wild (NZ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 and your point is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 legally u can catch the introduced speices though im not sure bout wether u can catch them in say a national park or nature reserve tho. u are probably never likely to see a native frog or its tadpoles so u can pretty much say any tadpole u see will be an introduced species. however the ethics of collectingfrogs or tadpoles is questionable as frogs are an important part of the eco system and already their habitat is under treat from logging and draining of wetland etc also Chytrid fungus is killing a lot. a lot of our introduced species are also endangerd in austrailia look at these links http://sopa.clients.squiz.net/Visiting/Whats_on/events/venues/brickpit_ring_walk http://www.otago.ac.nz/zoology/research/bishop/frogs/ not saying its wrong but we need to be careful about collecting animals such as these when we dont know where the population is at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axolotl-danio Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 i often hear of people selling them at school fairs would this be legal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 i guess its no different from pet shops selling them just depends where u are getting them from i guess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museeumchick Posted October 19, 2008 Report Share Posted October 19, 2008 most (if not all, cant remember off the top of my head) of the native frogs dont have free swimming tadpoles (do wierd things like keep them inside till theya re ready to be hopping about, or piggyback them till theyre big enough to fend for themselves) as they are more damp forest types rather than the swimmin types (also why they have little webbing between the toes as adults). also unlikely to be found in less than pristine habitats (and collecting anything native from a 'pristine' type habitat should be considered thoroughly. it is illegal to remove just about anything from a reserve, but the non natives can be legally collected from pretty much anywhere else. Regarding selling them, i dont know, there seems to be rules coming into play when selling stuff happens, but i doubt there will be an issue with school fair selling of tadpoles. does that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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