Extinct iguanas for sale in front of local police...

Marilyn · #1 08-12-2007, 06:19 PM

I just saw something that almost made me cry. Coming back from Barahona, in the area called Boqueron, just before Cruce de Ocoa, I saw two guys each selling an iguana. The unbelievable thing is that they were doing it right at a military check up point and the military personnel there were doing nothing about it. I wanted to stop and scream at them but thought better of it since nothing would've been gained, it goes on all the time.

I can't believe something like this is happening and no one is doing anything about it. Isn't there a law against capturing and selling animals in danger of extinction? such as iguanas and parrots?

Motorcycler · #2 08-12-2007, 09:48 PM

You know I saw them too...but weren't those iguanas the standard green pet shop type and not the rhinoceros or the ricord?

Marilyn · #3 08-12-2007, 10:37 PM

That's a good question, I have seen them selling those green ones also, but the ones I saw today were huge, like the ones in Lago Enriquillo. Next time I'll stop and check them out, but I don't think the green ones grow that big.

Motorcycler · #4 08-13-2007, 09:57 AM

Marilyn on our side of the Mona Channel the greenies get to be about 4 feet long. They are a plague and since they are not en endemic species the DRN has told everyone to kill them since they are a threat to the other iguanas.

Still they grow like wildfires...

Marilyn · #5 08-13-2007, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Motorcycler

Marilyn on our side of the Mona Channel the greenies get to be about 4 feet long. They are a plague and since they are not en endemic species the DRN has told everyone to kill them since they are a threat to the other iguanas.

Still they grow like wildfires...

That makes me feel much better!!!

Thanks