ALERT: Alabama Deadline to comment: July 6, 2020 The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has proposed a regulation to ban many species of reptiles and amphibians (and other animals). The regulation states it will be illegal to “possess,...
UPDATE: The ADCNR Commissioner has signed the regulation to ban the proposed species. You can read it at www.usark.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ADCNR-August-2020.pdf. USARK is still working on this matter. UPDATE 8/5/20: ADCNR announced its meeting of the Alabama...
UPDATE (with original alert below): The HEROES Act squeaked thought the House with a vote of 208 – 199. While it is expected that the Act will not be supported by the Senate, we all must be aware of what is happening in the current political...
While the discussion draft of this bill is not alarming for herpetoculture and most other animal interest groups, it is important to keep note of the many bills that will be coming (at all levels of government). With these bills, we will see proposals for banning or...
It’s finally here! We have a new website and it is finally live! Thank you greatly to all of those who stuck with us while we worked to bring you a better resource for keeping updated on the important issues affecting herpetoculture. We cannot properly express...
Buried on pages 1,628-1,635 of the latest 1,815-page House democratic draft of a COVID-19 relief bill known as the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act (HEROES Act) is the text of the Wildlife-Borne Disease Prevention Act (the Act). In the...