Papers for wild animals?

[heycroc]

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me myself didnt know that - the paper/permit diay is for the owner NOT on the wild animal. so, simply put, if you buy a wild animal from another enthusiast, you still have to secure a permit for yourself and cant make use of the other guy's permit. thats clear.

exactly!!!

[heycroc]

Another point that i'd like to make is also that a lot of istoryans who are selling wild caught specimens and saying that it is safe to sell as it is not endangered. Although the DENR could not enforce any actions against it, but it is irresponsible and unethical as filipinos, as we are slowly diminishing our local wild populations. A simple sale of a Philippine hanging parakeet may be excused by the Govt, but if we'd come to know more, we might be selling the last of the Cebu race Loriculus philippensis apicalis to which DENR is not capable of identifying nor telling if its any different from the Mindanao race. Among the subspecies that have been totally lost to us are the Cebu Oriole (Oriolus steerii), Cebu Warty (Sus cebifrons cebifrons) pig and at a point in time we also almost lost the Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene rabori) (rediscovered in Carmen) and the Cebu flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) to which there were only 4 left, luckily they made a slight come back. Philippines being an archipelago promotes the species variation due to the island barrier effect. Most of the time, species found in one island are unique to the island like Cebu as it has been prevented from interbreeding with other island populations for a very long time. This condition has made the Philippines the hottest hot spot in the world and is followed by Indonesia (also an archipelago). Meaning that we have a very high biodiversity but is also at a very high risk of facing extinction....highest in the world. Our Biodiversity is comparable to Madagascar but since they have a very large land mass, each species is has multiple groups found all over the country. Philippines on the other hand have very small islands thus species populations cant grow very much as they are limited by space and food availability. Add to this the very poor management of our natural resources and feeble enforcement of the law, much worse is the attitude of filipinos towards conservation.

[bownelson]

Nice clarification.....

[makoy-x]

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