USARK Lawsuit Update

[acephantom903]

Re: USARK Lawsuit Update

This doesn't effect the ban on the transport of Burms, correct?

I think it does. I think everyone who isn't a USARK exempt person is allowed to travel with them across state lines again except to TX and FL where they are banned at a state level.

[Joba1972]

Re: USARK Lawsuit Update

I think it does. I think everyone who isn't a USARK exempt person is allowed to travel with them across state lines again except to TX and FL where they are banned at a state level.

This would be good. I thought this decision only affirmed the lower court ruling that relics and anacondas could not be added to the list. I hope that I am wrong and you are correct!! Thanks.

[bcr_229]

Re: USARK Lawsuit Update

Dang, they won it on the grammar and phrasing of the actual Lacey Act. All it would take is changing about 2 words to ban interstate transport again.

That would take an act of Congress though, and we all know once our elected officials start meddling with a piece of legislation a whole lot of other stuff gets added to it. So we'll have to be doubly-vigilant.

Also this was an appeals court ruling, so USFWS has several months before its appeal to the USSC would be due. On Monday they could request an emergency stay of the decision. As things stand today though, ALL species listed as injurious can be moved within the continental US. Note that Washington, DC and Hawaii are excluded from that.

[Noelle7206]

Re: USARK Lawsuit Update

Here's the latest update, & I will add that I heartily agree with their reminder to all members in our "community" of keepers to breed responsibly...keep in mind that there are limits to the number of good homes
available for large constrictors so please don't over-produce them. (and besides, that drives their prices down too)

Lawsuit update and more!

[bcr_229]

Re: USARK Lawsuit Update

I will add that I heartily agree with their reminder to all members in our "community" of keepers to breed responsibly...keep in mind that there are limits to the number of good homes available for large constrictors so please don't over-produce them.

I would add that sellers need to be really picky about buyers. In the past 18 months I've taken in a retic, a yellow anaconda, and an albino Burmese python, all free, from people who either abandoned them or who gave them to me because they could no longer keep them.