hi all you guys gals and non-binary piles today i wanted to kind of throw in my two cents to all of
the other reptile youtubers out there who are talking about this issue right now and so i'm
not going to go into depth as all the different legislations and things like that that they have
already done a fantastic job of explaining and what that is is all of right now at least here
in the united states of all the reptile bans and laws and regulations and all these things
that are being put into any and all of the exotic pet things and so you know they've already talked
about what happened in florida they've talked about the banning of tegus of the big constrictors
and now the lacey act being put back on the table so that you know the lacy act being what u.s ark
great great group i'll put their you know just like the end of all the videos it's at the end
of the description it's at the bottom of the description of this video and all my other videos
go check them out show them support the only group that are you know fighting for rights to be able
to keep these animals they manage to overturn in a federal court case our ability to transport quite
a large variety and lengthy list of these animals and now with that being put back on the list on
the table again is they could not only reinstate that they could have this incredibly complicating
complicated and worrisome thing called a white in a blacklist which i'm just gonna go ahead and
say it that is super cringey and not really okay with me as far as terminology goes of a white and
black list being good and bad but sorry just had to get that off my chest really quick i know you
understand don't you lilly um but what that means is that unless a species is on the white good list
it's endurance to transport across state lines and so what that means is you know
something like in a gamut lizard a random one like a spiderman agama lizard or a toad face to gamma
is not on the white list it's technically in juris transport across state lines so you know say you
live in pennsylvania and there is a breeder of them in no in nevada technically if that passes
a department of wildlife at any of the stops along the way technically have the right to stop that
package open it up confiscate it find you find the seller and possibly put that animal down too
as well as just confiscating it to begin with so not great hopefully we can fight this a little bit
but like i said i'm not going to get too too much into all the details and everything that's
really bad with that i want to talk about like the extra complications that i'm sure some people have
touched on a little bit but it really kind of hits home for me for a couple reasons and so the number
one is that these bands so in all the different there are so many bands on all different states
oregon new york uh illinois alabama alaska that are not only banning and you are in the collar
here i'm just gonna do this because she's a little jerk butt aren't you lily you know for a snake
with a short little tail they can still manage to squeeze those into every little nook and cranny
but so all those bands not only are banning certain animals of lengths of species of all these
different things some of them are travel bans and that to me is honestly the most concerning thing
so you know for instance in new york which is the scariest and most extreme one which is no live
animal is able to be shipped through the state of new york it hasn't passed yet they're still
you know they're still talking about it um but you know that means goldfish snakes hamsters
gerbils dogs doesn't matter what it is if it's a live animal it can't be shipped so
fedex ups everything like that although i know fedex or ups doesn't really do that but in any
way you can't ship animals which means that if the reptile or whatever trade is going to
continue in new york they all have to be either in state or private individuals are gonna have to
drive hours and hours to grab them and then bring them back which is incredibly taxing
costs even more money it's not great um and the other part of that in there goes the caller
and the other part of that is is a lot of these animal bands are under the guise of a traveling
circus band and so i get that that has a really negative connotation to it and don't get me wrong
a lot of those traveling circuses are just awful they're horrendous they you know most of them have
gone extinct really i mean even the big ones like ringling brothers they're not around anymore but a
lot of these animal rights groups and individuals are you know passing it off to congressmen
and state representatives and all these other people that aren't really well educated on the
subject as it's an animal it's an animal circus ban you know it's to prevent animal uh neglect and
animal abuse but really what that means is that essentially any individual who's their businesses
to educate makes it now illegal for them to do so so the only groups that would be able to do
this in a lot of these states including this has come up twice in colorado in the last five years
that unless you're an aza so the association of zoos and aquariums accredited facilities so you
know one of the larger zoos one of the larger aquariums uh different programs like that that
are accredited with the aza you're it's illegal to transport them so what that means is that you
know what essentially i'm aspiring to do is to be you know that guy who shows up at your high school
or at your junior high with a big yellow snake and he shows up all these things and go holy wow
and everyone has that memory and that's kind of what i want to be that makes it illegal for me
to do so even if i have all of the insurance i have all the permits i have my business and
everything like that that's illegal for me to do in addition to that if you're a classroom teacher
and you have a pet ball python a pet gopher tortoise a pet or dragon at home and you want to
bring it into the class just for a day to discuss something on biology or animals or anything like
that that would technically be illegal for that teacher to do so which is insane to think
about so there's a lot of ramifications for these things that a lot of people aren't thinking about
and in addition to that so those are all those just like the travel bans and things like that
for as far and then you know i don't want to get too too much into this but as far as the
actual banning of individual species goes we have seen that in all aspects of not only animals but
things in general when you ban it that doesn't mean they go away that just means it pushes it
underground and criminal activity increases we saw with prohibition with the use of alcohol multiple
times in the you know this country's history they've banned the selling production and you know
drinking of alcohol but never stopped it just got really bad and very illegal until eventually they
ratified it and said okay that's fine again we'll just regulate it better so when you just straight
up ban retakes when you ban bearded dragons when you ban anacondas when you ban tegus and iguanas
they're not gonna go away they're not gonna leave south florida and i'm not gonna sit there and say
that all of the invasives in south florida is over exaggerated it's a serious problem and i
recognize that but keeping them out of the hands of responsible keepers and breeders and wanting
to educate future pop people on them isn't going to make that problem go away they're just going to
make good honest hard-working citizens criminals where are you going lily where are you going
and in addition to that when you do things like that also kind of staunches a little bit of
a lot of industries that people don't necessarily think about so you know obviously when you have
the lacey act and so you have re-tick breeders and burmese python breeders and things like that which
i'm not going to say that a retake and a berm is a great pet for everybody because they're not
it takes a lot of forethought and i've done a video about that you can watch it right here
but that being said you know the ability to not be able to sell them out so your state outside of the
state that you live in hampers that and so that means that you probably won't be able to breed
that animal that means that people like me or who want to do educational facilities or small little
you know small little collections who want to educate people
won't have the ability to you know potentially get those animals in to introduce them to other
people to let them know about their existence and that's not great and so they lose business
and so then the they won't breed them anymore they will stop buying animal they'll stop buying rats
for them or rabbits for them if they're a large if they're a large animal and then that means
the people who breed them are now out of business and then the people that they buy their food and
their bedding from they start to lose business and the people that manufacture those enclosures
the big large enclosures for the snakes the rat things the sheds all of that all of
that that's revenue lost all of the usps and all of the fedex and all the shipping costs
all of that is lost income and revenue because of these bans like this because it's what essentially
it is are groups lobbying which is you know groups feeding information and paying politicians
who aren't necessarily evil aren't necessarily bad who just don't know the whole story aren't well
educated on the subjects and when they hear animal abuse and neglect it's a red flag for them and so
it's an easy money easy bill for them to just kind of go on through because not only are they getting
paid to do it they it's an easy one everybody knows about it right well there's kind of a
big difference between those things and that's really what i want to talk about so and that's
the whole point of this video and i apologize for being so ranty and i know i do that a lot but
you know these type of things they have a lot of adverse complications that a lot of people don't
think about where you know it's just uh the still the motto of the only good snake as a dead snake
still exists which is just absolutely horrendous and i've said this a lot to a lot of the people
that i've come in contact with and i usually give the kind of the same speech to different
groups or individuals who i want to work with or do videos or projects on and that's you know this
is a reptile centered youtube channel it's mostly talking about individual species and their care
and in captivity but it doesn't end there every spark uncaring about the natural world in biology
and animals start somewhere and that spark that start is usually some guy like me on youtube like
brian barczyk or somebody else like that or going to your school or your library hopefully like me
in the future if you know things get better and we can move forward like this that show up and they
have the big yellow snake and the big sulcota tortoise and you can see these things and a lot
of people a lot of you know heavily urban places they don't have the ability to go to places like
zoos or have wide open nature parks and preserves and things like that where they may not be able to
ever see them they may not know that an animal like lily who if you don't know any better they
go oh that's a burmese python no it's a boa oh it's a red-tailed ball a bullet constrictor no
it's a dune rules bow they're from madagascar what from with with king julien and the lemurs
yeah with king julien from and the lemurs they don't know that and then that starts a spark that
starts a passion and that can lead into a lot of other things that can lead into animal rescue and
rehabilitation that can lead into conservation that can lead into land management it can lead
into biology it could lead into eventually studying zoonic diseases and better moving
our understanding of not only them but us too and it all starts with a small little spark of
seeing a weird dude with a ponytail because yes i meet that criteria on youtube or showing up
at your library or school and talking about these amazing beautiful animals
and with all this legislation and all these bands and all these bills and laws being passed
they make it so it's going to be almost impossible for future generations to know
what lily is that lily even exists what habitat she comes from where that is in the world what's
going on in madagascar specifically madagascar that place has been so deforested 90 percent
of madagascar is gone for sustainable habitat for all of the populations of animals that live there
and if a kid doesn't see this like doesn't see lily if a kid doesn't know about that how are they
gonna care if people don't know about it how are they gonna care and i'm sorry i'm getting a little
choked up about this but this is really important to me and that's that's the truth of this so
if you guys love animals if you have someone in your life that you know that you love animals that
you care about conservation about the natural world about education about learning about
passion of any kind please please please spread the knowledge spread the information of these laws
so people know more about them so let us be able to educate future people on these amazing animals
and if you can please please please i know i hate doing this and it's not like i'm getting anything
from this other than hopefully the ability to keep them please if you can support us arc
us arc the u.s association of reptile keepers they really are the only ones fighting for
our ability to keep this they recently fought an animal travel ban in illinois
let everyone know what was going on they even made up two or three different letterheads that
all we had to do was literally go copy and paste of the representative our name
that and then a little section to write something personal they went you know what this was right
you're right this was overreaching we didn't know the full story and so they tabled it they
it's gone it's off there the rep of the animal travel ban in illinois is gone that happened
twice here in colorado it's happening in oregon and all these other places so they're the ones
that are making any sort of difference and when it comes to this money makes the world go around
these lobbyists that are telling the politicians about these bills and feeding this information
or misinformation if you want to use that hot button word they have a lot of money billions
of dollars for this usr doesn't have a whole lot it's really only a couple people they're
not taking big salaries because i know that's getting thrown around a whole lot
they're really just fighting for our right to keep these animals so if you can if you love education
if you love animals please please please spread the news spread the knowledge let people make sure
let people stay informed inform people and please if you can support us arc
sorry that i ended this on a bit of a downer but like i said i just want to add in my two cents
of this subject because it kind of hits personal for me because it's like i'm just getting started
into this yeah i've been keeping for a while but i'm really just getting started in the hobby in
the community really trying to start out education and that rug is going to get pulled out from
under me before i even have a fighting chance to hopefully you know educate and spread my passion
and love for these animals so thank you so much for your time thank you so much for listening
hope you're having a great day and we'll check you next time for more reptile content