>
> In Europe we are one step ahead already: In Italy the captive maintenance
of
> wild type species is prohited since October 2003! I mentioned this to an
> italian friend who first thought it to be false information. Then he
checked
> it and it came out to be true.
>
> In France, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium it is already prohibited to maintain
> native species. Regardless what subspecies, e.g. it is not allowed to keep
> any Salamandra ssp. even if they don4t occur in that state. No S.s.
gallaica
> from Portugal in Netherlands (though that subspecies is way different from
> the S.s. terrestris found there naturally).
>
> To be continued ... for sure! Poor next generations.
>
Sadly this is one reason politics, no matter how much we think they are off
topic, are really on topic for all of us.
Moon
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