USARK FL Announces Defeat of Iguana Ban
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Daniel Parker, Director of Media for USARK FL, spoke to the Calusa Herpetological Society in Ft. Myers on March 7, 2024 to announce the defeat of HB 1033, a bill which would have banned all iguanas from being kept in Florida.
Florida Iguana Ban Defeated!
A bill seeking to ban all species of Iguanas failed as the session ended last Friday. This bill, HB 1033, was filed by Republican State Representative Sam Killebrew of Winter Haven.
This legislation would have expanded the current ban on Green iguanas to include Rock iguanas, Rhinoceros iguanas, Spiny-tailed iguanas, Chuckwallas, and all other Iguanid lizards.
Some of the largest assurance colonies of endangered Iguanas are found at Florida facilities. These captive breeding programs would help prevent extinction of those species if their wild populations continue to deteriorate. In addition to its negative conservation impacts, this bill would have further degraded the freedoms of reptile keepers and small businesses within Florida. It also sought to ban the sales of dog and cats in pet stores.
USARK FL effectively lobbied State Representatives against the bill. We organized a public call-in and email campaign to legislators to oppose the bill. HB 1033 never even got a committee hearing. We also collaborated with other pet advocates against the bill. With the legislative session ending on Friday, the bill is dead. Thank you to all who participated in the effort to defeat this bad bill!
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Congrats USARK FL! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Great work!!!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great Job!!🎉
Great job! ❤❤❤
Great job! Keep going!
Thank you USARKFL!! I am so grateful we have you Daniel Parker and Elizabeth Wisneski for fighting the battle for my future. When I am old enough I will continue the fight for the right to keep and breed these animals.
Great job 👏
Congrats USARK
Great news!!!
Teamwork wins again! Keep it up!
Congrats to USARK FL!! Well done!
Congrats guys!
Every victory counts
this is good news! wish we could get tegus legalized again in FL
This is great news. Good work all!
Always a pleasure to hear from the articulate and intelligent Daniel Parker.
Thank you for the great work USARK FL, and everyone on the community who made our voices heard!
Great job!!!
Congrats for the amazing job in getting this proprosed ban defeated before it even got to the first committee. 👏💪👍
Thank you USARK! These calls to action are so powerful, but you guys do the real work!
Thank you, but it is not possible without the support of all our reptile keepers.
Woohoo this is good news ! Glad to hear about this !
Amazing!!
🙌👏👏
I live in central Florida and Green iguanas are my #1 favorite reptile and I can't own one but people can own outdoor cat's which kill thousands of Native species every year!!!
Thank you USARK FL!
Awesome work, you guys ROCK!!
👏 👏 👏
Heck yeah!
Yall are doing amazing work 👏🖤
Grats
Congrats. 👏🏻 Glad it was defeated. 👏🏻
GREAT NEWS! Sad they lost the right to experience a green iguana as a rewarding pet. However they have an abundance outside to enjoy naturally!
just down here feeding the algorithm
Iggy says thanks U.S.A.R.K
This makes me so happy 😊