they are not technically protected, they are controlled (schedule 5) due to their notoriety as invasive species. there are no provisions to keep, breed, import, eat or do anything with them, and under the law, only the director general can issue special permits for them.

so yeah, the fact that they are still being openly bought and sold could only mean that perhilitan had failed miserably at this point.

p/s: are you aware that offences involving the genera Sarracenia, Nepenthes and Dionaea could carry fines amounting to RM100,000k per specimen for individual offender? lolol.

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Added on August 22, 2011, 8:17 pmi need your help on something. please check your pm

This post has been edited by camillenoir: Aug 22 2011, 08:17 PM

dude, where in the world had you been? people here had came clean for quite a while now. i wished that you had listened to iminuru.

for the past 1 and a half years people had been talking about the new wildlife laws (686 and 716). they even got front page coverage on local newspapers and even made it to the headlines a few weeks back. i believe that we had even posted about the matter in the last page.

ok, basically for keeping 2 star tortoises without license you're looking into a maximum of RM100,00/3 years imprisonment if you're charged under Act 716 and a maximum of RM200,00/7 years imprisonment if you're charged under Act 686.

if you go to wildlife office now, they might consider to reduce the penalty if you give the seller away, that's the way it works.

yeah, my thoughts exactly.

and under the new laws, people like us who had been breeding for years are now criminals, while those people that had done absolutely nothing other than preaching and campaigning (WWF, Sahabat Alam) are heroes. and perhilitan is still dumb and more concerned on internal politics and some good media rep but had utterly failed in recognizing the real problem.

ko tak sembahyang raya ke bro?

bro.. now you're publicly advertising the stars. if got caught, no ampun already.

safe or not safe, you got to justify yourselves

the above plant is Tridax procumbens

Nutrient Analysis

- from Jude et. al. (2009)

a very recent research by Sailaja, Bharathi & Prasad (2011) revealed that T. procumbens can be used to treat and prevent kidney stones.

there had however been a recorded case of green turtles (marine) been poisoned and died after being fed with the plant (Glazebrook and Campbell, 1990).

This post has been edited by camillenoir: Aug 30 2011, 03:35 PM

OK, but please stop discussing about obtaining illegal animals here. we had endured too much just to get our animals legalized, and your post will negate all the efforts that we had done.

your RES will tear those water lettuce in no time.

if you want to have continuous supply of the plant, what you need to do is grow them in a different pond/container and let them multiply first before giving some to your turtles.