aotealotl Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 it did just disgust me what I saw yesterday on ONE, there was even a swiss idiot involved (beside all the german germs) in the poaching and smuggling. up to NZ $10'000 for a Jewelled Gecko on the european market. :an!gry beside increasing the fines and jail time for a poacher it should be possible for the people of NZ to have the right to go and slap those poachers into the face twice in public. public humiliation would help to keep those poachers away... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dachende Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Loving the double slap idea :sml2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godly3vil Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emaytiti Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 +1 They should be locked up and the key thrown away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emaytiti Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 The ones we saw were the ones who got caught, it makes me sick to think how many get out of NZ with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broms2 Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 easy to fix, big fines and long jail term, make the pay off not worth the punishment if caught, it really is in the hands of the law makers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 wasn't there another case of this recently??? (about 4 months ago???) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repto Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 slap not much good?what about a punch or two? Without condoning it in any way shape or form,at least the geckos will be well looked after and a captive bred population should eventuate,much like beardys,bluetongues and leopards here?Apart from the likely hood of in breeding and genetic weakness this has to be a good thing if in years to come we need to repopulate areas?I wonder what percentage of our exotic reptiles came to be here by similar means? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#!CrunchBang Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 I think better boarder detection would be a better investment and deterrent, than a harsher penalty, but the penalty should still increase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruru Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 slap not much good?what about a punch or two? Without condoning it in any way shape or form,at least the geckos will be well looked after and a captive bred population should eventuate,much like beardys,bluetongues and leopards here?Apart from the likely hood of in breeding and genetic weakness this has to be a good thing if in years to come we need to repopulate areas?I wonder what percentage of our exotic reptiles came to be here by similar means? It doesn't work like that. Once the lizards are overseas, they can never be returned to NZ, let alone the wild. The cost of screening for all the diseases they could pick up overseas would be prohibitively expensive and they can't be sure they have screened for every disease the species may have come in contact with. The main reason importing reptiles to NZ is so heavily restricted is the risk of bringing in novel diseases which could rapidly infect our wild populations. Poachers are essentially killing the species they claim to love. Most NZ species now have sustainable captive populations (although inbreeding and outbreeding is a major problem) within NZ, so we really don't need fools claiming they are doing us a favour by poaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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