USARK advises against shipping at this time..
I still say, Ship Now. Because who is enforcing anything ? No one. There's no valid rule against shipping.
Anyone have any male N. dorsalis?
USARK advises against shipping at this time..
News article in the journal "Science" on latest B.sal news: A deadly salamander disease just got a lot scarier | Science | AAAS
My own thoughts after reading it:
It is missing some current positive information on the fight against this disease, making it a very alarmist/doom-laden article. But fear sells media.
It sounds like (from the end of the article) Joe Mendelson of Zoo Atlanta wants to ban every amphibian coming into the US. In principle, I can see merit to that (that is the current situation with hundreds of salamander species anyhow). But what about the B.sal carrying goose described in the research? Shouldn't we ban geese then? Seriously though, what is reasonable and where would it end?
And then it's important to remember the only known samples of B.sal in the US were imported by US researchers. Remember that studies showed that US researchers carried B.d. to new populations of amphibians in California. And wiped them out. Perhaps we should also ban the importation of diseases into the US for research if they're not already here.
does this mean that when I move to California in a year I can legally bring my axolotls with me?
This is great news, its good to know that we can still fight and win for whats right.
The pet trade was dependant upon imports of wild specimens from Asia. I think it's unlikely that the combination of mass imports, low prices, a quarantine and treatment regime being emplaced, and a suitable legal change, will ever occur again. Best you might hope for is the last two things to change, in which case limited numbers of more expensive imports might be possible, either WC or CB.