on 5/17/01 11:03 AM, Anne B. Keating at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone here been able to receive confirmation from
> someone in the AZA?
I am a member of the AZA.
AZA is far more worried about the primate trade and canned hunts. Also
private ownership of large cats. Although the AZA is also very concerned
with the impact the exotic pet trade (including herps) has on wild
populations... I think everyone should be worried about that.
The article in the current issue of Communiqu� covers the fact that many
states have no laws regulating exotic pet ownership. True that the article
did include reptiles within the definition of "exotic" but was really more
concerned with states which allow private ownership of Tigers without
permit.
Greg
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Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
Dept. of Biology
Sacred Heart University
5151 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06432
and
Yale Peabody Museum
Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
170 Whitney Ave
PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
Fax 203-432-3758
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