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As a passionate advocate for reptiles and the conservation of their species, Illawarra Reptile Society finds itself deeply concerned by the new rules proposed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) that will govern how shows and expos are held in New South Wales. These rules, while ostensibly championing animal welfare, would instead pose a threat to our educational events and conservation efforts, by imposing unrealistic cage size requirements and actually increasing poor animal welfare at such events by increasing the amount of times a enclosure must be opened and increasing humidity in enclosures.

Currently, these events provide crucial education to the public, broadening our understanding of reptiles, their care, and their importance to the ecosystem. They are also instrumental in raising much-needed funds for conservation projects. Under the proposed rules, only the smallest breeds or hatchings would be allowed to be sold or displayed. This could lead to considerable restrictions on the sale of reptiles and a devastating loss to our collaborative, educational, and conservation efforts.

For example, frogs—a vital group of species in the reptile shows—will not be able to be showcased or sold due to the new cage-size requirements, which will require sizes too large to be practical for displays or sales. This not only impacts the livelihoods of the organizers and sellers of these shows but also hampers our efforts to educate the public about the importance of these creatures to our environment and encourage empathy and understanding.

We feel that a more balanced approach, one that considers the welfare of the animals and the educational value of these shows, should be adopted instead of the proposed rules. We urge the NPWS to collaborate with the organisers of these shows, reconsider and adjust their regulations in a way that supports both animal welfare and the unique educational and conservation benefits that these shows provide. Sign this petition to oppose NPWS's unrealistic regulations and protect our reptile shows.1736747665727.png
 
NSW is the Australian leader in nanny state syndrome. Bizarrely and horrifically, many New South Welshman themselves not only apathetically tolerate it but actively embrace it, even to the insane extent of actual reptile and amphibian keepers wanting and advocating for increased restrictions on themselves such as more restrictive and involved processes regarding licensing requirements.

The government isn't going to help you do what you want to do. Bureaucrats are not genuinely interested in and have no knowledge about animal welfare or conservation, and all they are going to do is make things more difficult, more restrictive, and give themselves more power. They don't care if your life is difficult, they don't care if you have less opportunity to enjoy your hobbies or help others or assist in education or conservation.

Virtue signalling by herpers is a genuine problem. Jump on Facebook or this forum and ask what size a Children's Python enclosure should be and you'll typically get people saying they need 4' enclosures etc, as well as nonsense like UV lights etc etc. In reality this is not needed or beneficial, people just say these over the top things to virtue signal or in some cases with genuine intentions of helping the animals, but the result can be actual laws set by people who don't care, inspired by newbies with no clue, which harm everyone including the animals we care about.

What we need is less restrictions, less pandering to virtue signallers and bleeding hearts, and a recognition that bureaucrats with no understanding or genuine interest in animal welfare can't do a good job of telling actual experts how to do things and shouldn't be doing this. It's just not their legitimate place. We don't have government inspections for people who keep fish, cats, budgerigars, guinea pigs etc, and it's not necessary. Especially in terms of public displays, there is no potential for widespread problems because anything specifically put on public display is open to public scrutiny including by community peers.

And of course, while NSW leads the nanny state problem, Victoria isn't far behind and everywhere in Australia has a severe problem.

Keep this in mind when advocating unrealistic standards or ever thinking about making the mistake of wanting official regulators policing husbandry standards.
 
I for 1 certainly don't want any government interference in my life. I hate boofocrats on every level, yes we need our garbage removed and roads repaired but most are just useless oxygen thieves, take the current PM for example
 
I for 1 certainly don't want any government interference in my life. I hate boofocrats on every level, yes we need our garbage removed and roads repaired but most are just useless oxygen thieves, take the current PM for example

Right, I'm not an anarchist, we do need a government to maintain roads and hospitals etc, but governments inherently want to accumulate as much power as possible and if left unchecked do so until a totalitarian state is established, which *always* results in the state's people suffering, economic and societal decline and the collapse of the system either from within or by takeover from a hostile rival state taking advantage of the state's weakness. It is the responsibility of the population to ensure the government does not gain too much power, because once they get too much the state is on an unstoppable path to misery then devastation. Australia is currently a state where the population in large part is actually embracing the government's accumulation of power, taking over roles which the government has no business in, such as raising children (the government shouldn't educate children in non academic matters, certainly not in terms of subjective social or political issues), it shouldn't enforce any rules on individuals which don't impact on other people, and people should have autonomy over how to run their own lives, including the option to make bad decisions not in their own best interests. Sure, that line can be blurry at times, but anywhere near the middle is okay, and Australia is now at an absurd point towards the extreme of the spectrum and moving rapidly further in that direction. History repeats itself over and over, and the writing on the wall says Australia has a nasty future.
 

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