Najakcharmer
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ORIGINAL: EgosumDominus I kinda doubt he is using the kind of skins that are so exotic that they are endangered, or limited. He is a nice young man that is starting up a new business. Generally new businesses cant afford the high ticket skins. Like elephant, shark, python etc. That actually would not be true. Some of the most common and cheapest snake skins in the reptile skin trade are very definitely from endangered populations. It takes extra effort (and sometimes more money outlay) to find snake skins that aren't, actually. Anything reptile out of Asia is probably bad news for indigenous reptile populations, and rattlesnake skins are extremely bad news as they are produced commercially by means that are absolutely disastrous to local ecosystems and snake populations. Your best bet if you must have snake skin probably is python or boa, as they're a bit more of a renewable resource. But artificial is better yet. For the record, I don't have a problem with properly managed hunting or hide farming, as long as it's done as a renewable resource and isn't grossly cruel (eg, the snakes are not skinned alive, as they are at the rattlesnake roundups that produce almost all North American rattlesnake hides). The problem I have is with uncontrolled non sustainable harvesting that will eventually result in species extinction and habitat destruction, and I encourage people who deal in animal products to be fully aware of the issues and to take steps to sell only products that are sustainable.
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