BH> Right. Because to these people, there is no long term, only the short
BH> term or in other words cash in hand this month. These birds are a cash
BH> in hand commodity only. They don't really care about the birds or the
BH> rainforrests. If we don't import and buy the birds neither is going to
BH> be worth anything to them. The forests will not be preserved if we
    Also is a point I believe we spoke about before, I remember when 15 years 
ago the whole idea of captive breeding Amazon parrots seemed to be almost 
impossible according to a lot of people. But after it became appearant that 
there would be no more imported, people worked harder to try to get breeding
pairs set up and breeding successfully (necessity is the motherhood of 
invention). Now I am a little concerned that if they start flowing in again 
there may be less incentive to captive breed. It may once again be more 
economic to buy imports for resale then to grow your own, I personally think
this would be a setback to aviculture.  I would hope maybe they would 
stick to adolescent birds instead of babies or older birds.  Babies could
cause a sag in the captive raised market, and taking older birds would seem
to be like taking the natural breeders out of the wild..
           What do you think?
    Dave
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