- Signatures: 448
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 10-30-2007
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THIS IS AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE GASPARILLA ISLAND IGUANA
SITUATION - PLEASE FORWARD Sorry for the cross-post, just needed to get this
critical update out to everyone!
To whom it may concern – please forward to all interested parties / post to all relevant lists and message boards: SALE / ADOPTION NOTICE:This morning the Today Show aired a segment on the county-mandated extermination (capture and freezing) of black spiny-tail iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) on Gasparilla Island in Florida. Iguana Busters is a private company which is live-trapping the iguanas and has them available for adoption / rescue / sale right now as an alternative to euthanasia by freezing. Every iguana adopted will not be killed as long as they can be adopted out on the day of capture. New individuals are arriving daily. Anybody can apply – we are especially looking for pet wholesalers and exporters as well as private individuals. There are hundreds available for the cost of shipping. FWC and USFWS have been notified and are fully cooperating. Shipping methods have been established. Theses are healthy very high-quality Ctenosaura similis of all sizes and ages. Please contact Iguana Busters at their website www.iguanabusters.com.Every iguana that can be adopted / sold will not have to be killed by the end of the day. Please help!Susanne Kynast susanne@maineline.net SITUATION REPORT / ACTIVISM REQUESTED:A lot of you were appalled by the iguanas being stuffed into freezers on the Today Show. Here is a critical update on the issue:There are approximately 10,000 Black spiny-tailed iguanas Ctenosaura similis on Gasparilla island. They are invasive there and the residents want them gone or at least their numbers dramatically reduced. Like any invasive species they cause damage to native species, with probably the biggest issue being sea turtles. When the ordinance change exempting iguanas from protection came into effect, island residents started a free-for-all iguana killing spree with horrible consequences. Iguana Busters is a company attempting to help by removing iguanas professionally. Iguana Busters does not want to kill the iguanas if there is another option. They are willing to create holding facilities for adoption, and ship iguanas to new owners. What we need are people willing to organize an adoption campaign and reptile keepers willing to adopt. Most importantly we need anyone interested in relocating those animals back into their native range. THE KEY PROBLEM IS THAT LEE COUNTY IS ACCEPTING BIDS FOR A CONTRACT TO KILL ALL IGUANAS ON THE ISLAND. THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY LIVE SOLUTIONS AND ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT CRUELTY. Iguana Busters was considering bidding on the county contract but they are not interested in the whole-scale killing of the iguanas. Iguana Busters does NOT need your comments on humane euthanasia. In order to save the iguanas of Gasparilla island you need to protest to Elizabeth Walker at walkerl@leegov.com who is the public resources manager in charge of the iguana issue and who believes that killing them by any means is the only right thing to do. Copy your protests to Scott Trebatoski at strebatoski@leegov.com who is the Director of Animal Services in Lee County and very receptive to a humane solution, the Lee County government at questions@leegov.com, and Bonnie McGee from the iguana committee on Gasparilla island at bocabee1@comcast.net. Send information on inhumane euthanasia as well as your opinion on relocation. I offered the pet trade, adoption, and relocation into their native range as options, but Elizabeth Walker was only interested in killing them. The company which wins the contract will be FORBIDDEN to allow any iguana off the island alive! It will be up to you to change her mind. They will be meeting on the extermination contract on Tuesday October 31. PLEASE make all your concerns known to them as quickly as possible. HERE IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY MAILING!! PLEASE HELP!As far as Iguana Busters is concerned, they will adopt out! Inform yourself on this species and e-mail me at susanne@maineline.net with any help you can give. If YOU can find a place for those iguanas to go, they will not die. If YOU adopt one, it will live.Please help and God bless!Susanne Kynast
This update applies to 'Iguanas on Today Show' and 'Freezing Iguanas'
There has been an extremely important development. We have found a way to
save all the iguanas, but unless all of you take immediate action it will
not work!!!!!
SITUATION - PLEASE FORWARD Sorry for the cross-post, just needed to get this
critical update out to everyone!
To whom it may concern – please forward to all interested parties / post to all relevant lists and message boards: SALE / ADOPTION NOTICE:This morning the Today Show aired a segment on the county-mandated extermination (capture and freezing) of black spiny-tail iguanas (Ctenosaura similis) on Gasparilla Island in Florida. Iguana Busters is a private company which is live-trapping the iguanas and has them available for adoption / rescue / sale right now as an alternative to euthanasia by freezing. Every iguana adopted will not be killed as long as they can be adopted out on the day of capture. New individuals are arriving daily. Anybody can apply – we are especially looking for pet wholesalers and exporters as well as private individuals. There are hundreds available for the cost of shipping. FWC and USFWS have been notified and are fully cooperating. Shipping methods have been established. Theses are healthy very high-quality Ctenosaura similis of all sizes and ages. Please contact Iguana Busters at their website www.iguanabusters.com.Every iguana that can be adopted / sold will not have to be killed by the end of the day. Please help!Susanne Kynast susanne@maineline.net SITUATION REPORT / ACTIVISM REQUESTED:A lot of you were appalled by the iguanas being stuffed into freezers on the Today Show. Here is a critical update on the issue:There are approximately 10,000 Black spiny-tailed iguanas Ctenosaura similis on Gasparilla island. They are invasive there and the residents want them gone or at least their numbers dramatically reduced. Like any invasive species they cause damage to native species, with probably the biggest issue being sea turtles. When the ordinance change exempting iguanas from protection came into effect, island residents started a free-for-all iguana killing spree with horrible consequences. Iguana Busters is a company attempting to help by removing iguanas professionally. Iguana Busters does not want to kill the iguanas if there is another option. They are willing to create holding facilities for adoption, and ship iguanas to new owners. What we need are people willing to organize an adoption campaign and reptile keepers willing to adopt. Most importantly we need anyone interested in relocating those animals back into their native range. THE KEY PROBLEM IS THAT LEE COUNTY IS ACCEPTING BIDS FOR A CONTRACT TO KILL ALL IGUANAS ON THE ISLAND. THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY LIVE SOLUTIONS AND ARE NOT CONCERNED ABOUT CRUELTY. Iguana Busters was considering bidding on the county contract but they are not interested in the whole-scale killing of the iguanas. Iguana Busters does NOT need your comments on humane euthanasia. In order to save the iguanas of Gasparilla island you need to protest to Elizabeth Walker at walkerl@leegov.com who is the public resources manager in charge of the iguana issue and who believes that killing them by any means is the only right thing to do. Copy your protests to Scott Trebatoski at strebatoski@leegov.com who is the Director of Animal Services in Lee County and very receptive to a humane solution, the Lee County government at questions@leegov.com, and Bonnie McGee from the iguana committee on Gasparilla island at bocabee1@comcast.net. Send information on inhumane euthanasia as well as your opinion on relocation. I offered the pet trade, adoption, and relocation into their native range as options, but Elizabeth Walker was only interested in killing them. The company which wins the contract will be FORBIDDEN to allow any iguana off the island alive! It will be up to you to change her mind. They will be meeting on the extermination contract on Tuesday October 31. PLEASE make all your concerns known to them as quickly as possible. HERE IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY MAILING!! PLEASE HELP!As far as Iguana Busters is concerned, they will adopt out! Inform yourself on this species and e-mail me at susanne@maineline.net with any help you can give. If YOU can find a place for those iguanas to go, they will not die. If YOU adopt one, it will live.Please help and God bless!Susanne Kynast
This update applies to 'Iguanas on Today Show' and 'Freezing Iguanas'
There has been an extremely important development. We have found a way to
save all the iguanas, but unless all of you take immediate action it will
not work!!!!!
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | Leave your thoughts about this matter of killing. | Will you send emails to those in the petition | Picture | Report |
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| 448 | 11:05 pm PDT, Jul 7 | Mr. | Alexander Jeans | If people are disappointed that these iguanas are eating their chicken-eggs or whatnot they should have better enclosures for the chickens rather than neglecting both the chickens and the iguanas! Hopefully I will be getting a black iguana pretty soon from a petstore here in Sweden! Get one if you can and make sure it has a large enclosure! The poor thingīll get the love it deserves from me at least. Too bad I canīt adopt one from the States though. | probably not |  |
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| 447 | 12:48 pm PDT, May 26 | Anonymous | IT IS VERY INHUMANE THAT INNOCENT ANIMALS ARE BEING KILL. THEY HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE 1960, LONGER THAN AHY OF US .THEY DID NOT INVADE US, WE DID TAKE THE SPACE THAT WAS MEANT FOR IGUANAS AND NATURE TO ROAM FREE AND SURVIVE. THEY ONLY THING THEY DO IS EAT FRUIT AND VEGETATION. THEY ARE NOT BITTING, KILLING ANYONE, SO WHAT DID THEY DO WRONG | YES |  |
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| 446 | 2:23 pm PDT, Jul 30 | greta malkotzoglou | i love animals! | |
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| 445 | 2:14 pm PDT, May 31 | Annelies Ooms | Stop the killing | I will try |  |
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| 444 | 8:22 am PDT, Apr 14 | Pat Phillips | Kill? NO! Reduce population by capuring and sending to zoo's, adoption centers, etc. Yes. Lizards and iguana's have a purpose. Rid them all and you'll have other pests in your houses. | yes |  |
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| 443 | 7:09 pm PST, Mar 8 | Diana Martz - Animalspirit | NO KILLINGS NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! | IF I NEED TOO | |
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| 442 | 2:29 pm PST, Feb 27 | Ivana Soldic | This is inhumane! | yes | |
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| 441 | 1:23 pm PST, Feb 19 | Ms. | Julia Tawyea | killing is wrong... | don't know.. | |
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| 440 | 12:53 pm PST, Feb 16 | Anonymous | My e-mail adress can colapse, but I will | |
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| 439 | 10:39 pm PST, Feb 12 | Laurel Watson | There is no excuse for this. | I tried but they won't leave my outbox. | |
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| 438 | 1:28 pm PST, Jan 30 | Mr. | hunglikehorse bigcock | Maybe we should euthanize Walker. | yes | |
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| 437 | 6:21 pm PST, Jan 16 | Mrs. | April DAWSON | yes | |
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| 436 | 2:49 am PST, Jan 11 | Ms. | SANDRA ROCHA | I WILL TRY. | |
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| 435 | 7:31 pm PST, Jan 4 | Anonymous | Humans have no more of a right to over populate Earth and exhaust its natural resources, than iguanas have to live!! These animals should be relocated and put up for adoption. Masacres of animals are inhumane, barbaric, uncivilized. Who do these people think they are? | Yes | |
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| 434 | 7:01 pm PST, Dec 8 | Mrs. | patti pruitt | This is ludicrous.I have had several of these iguanas as pets and are intelligent and docile unless threatened.Slaughter is the easy inhumane thing desensitized people do. Stop this slaughter! | yes | |
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| 433 | 5:28 pm PST, Dec 8 | Mr. | Christopher Sorenson | Iquanas were there first Money cant buy extinction.... | No | |
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| 432 | 8:25 am PST, Nov 28 | Alessandro Barracciu | . |  |
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| 431 | 8:24 am PST, Nov 28 | Laura Tatti | stop killing animals,this is wrong!LET THEM LIVE | . |  |
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| 430 | 1:16 pm PST, Nov 15 | Ms. | Shannon Saldana | I will try. | |
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| 429 | 4:44 pm PDT, Oct 29 | Jean-Marie Trincali | .... | |
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| 428 | 4:09 pm PDT, Oct 29 | Mrs. | Marilyn Dishong | Please save them for others to have as pets | no | |
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| 427 | 4:42 am PDT, Oct 27 | Ms. | Anne Seidel | Sure! | |
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| 426 | 2:22 am PDT, Oct 19 | Annie Bertrand | yes | |
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| 425 | 2:21 am PDT, Oct 19 | chantal Chavassieux | ! | |
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| 424 | 2:21 am PDT, Oct 19 | eric duprat | maybe | |
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| 423 | 2:20 am PDT, Oct 19 | jean-damien Susini | no | |
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| 422 | 2:19 am PDT, Oct 19 | josette Roux | yes | |
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| 421 | 9:43 pm PDT, Oct 15 | Aleasha Casaretto | Iguanas are wonderful animals and should never be killed. | Yes |  |
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| 420 | 6:44 pm PDT, Aug 15 | JAMES STROHMEYER | yes | |
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| 419 | 2:34 pm PDT, Aug 6 | Itzel Salsberg | No? | |
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| 418 | 9:35 pm PDT, Jul 31 | Jenny Dumas | Stop killing them NOW! | why? | |
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| 417 | 8:16 pm PDT, Jul 18 | G C | I think that you are all well meaning but uninformed !!! Iguana Busters was the company that was freezing Iguana On the Today Show ! Now this company has hatched a under handed plan to make money by exploiting these animals through an adoption scam !!!!!!!! Which is playing on your emotion ...I do believe that something needs to be done but your efforts would be put to better use Having your Government officials pass laws putting A stop to the importation of exotic animals into the United States. G C | NO | |
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| 416 | 4:24 am PDT, Jul 17 | olaya garcia | yes | |
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| 415 | 7:57 pm PDT, Jul 12 | Summer Jusek | shure | |
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| 414 | 9:50 pm PDT, Jul 4 | Ms. | Claudia De Lara | yes. | |
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| 413 | 8:58 am PDT, Jun 21 | Melanie Fitzpatrick | Catching and freezing iguanas? That is so in humane. It's causing the iguana to suffer. | Sure | |
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| 412 | 9:24 pm PDT, Jun 17 | Ms. | Natalie Santiago | yes | |
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| 411 | 1:38 pm PDT, Jun 12 | Cassidy Stephens | I think it sucks. There are better ways. | Maybe. I'd really like to adopt some iguanas, though. |  |
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| 410 | 11:47 am PDT, Jun 10 | Anonymous | . | |
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| 409 | 7:08 pm PDT, May 27 | Ms. | Krystie Comer | yes |  |
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| 408 | 2:14 am PDT, May 25 | Ashley Wardell | Iguanas should not be killed! I will adopt one | yes |  |
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| 407 | 7:31 am PDT, May 21 | Anonymous | yes | |
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| 406 | 6:51 am PDT, May 21 | Anonymous | mailto:walkerl@leegov.com mailto:strebatoski@leegov.com mailto:questions@leegov.com mailto:bocabee1@comcast.net | |
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| 405 | 2:14 pm PDT, May 19 | Ms. | Jillyanne Michelle Cape | If the animals truly need to be relocated, then relocate them humanely. Don't kill them. This is wrong. | No, I am SIGNING the petition instead. | |
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| 404 | 2:21 pm PDT, May 10 | Jane Dixon | Will you send emails to those in this petition | |
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| 403 | 6:13 pm PDT, May 9 | Anonymous | - | |
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| 402 | 12:42 pm PDT, May 7 | Robert Jones | Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice. | Yes, I will. | |
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| 401 | 1:44 pm PDT, May 4 | Cynthia M. Brownlee | No this should be enough. I would adopt a iguana myself but I wouldn't be able to take care of him/her. | |
SAVE THE BLACK SPINY TAIL IGUANAS IN FLORIDA
We need people to sign and e-mail a petition TODAY to ask the town to remove
the euthanasia requirement from the trapping contract.
Because there are nearly hourly updates on the situation I have created a
newsletter within yahoogroups. The petition and all the information on the
issue is in the 'files' area. The address is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scienceactionnet/ (Science Action Network) You
will have to join to get access and notification of new uploads. You cannot
post to the group (it is set up as a newsletter only). For questions please
e-mail me at susanne@maineline.net.
PLEASE JOIN AND HELP SAVE 10,000 IGUANAS TONIGHT!!!!
This site also explains what happened to the Iguana Busters website and the
adoption program. Thank you so very much to everyone who has expressed an
interest in adopting! I apologize for not having gotten back to each of you
individually, I am extremely grateful for your support but have worked 24/7
on this issue for the last few days and have just had no time to answer,
especially since the situation keeps changing so rapidly!!!!
PLEASE JOIN AND TAKE ACTION!
God bless,
Susanne
the euthanasia requirement from the trapping contract.
Because there are nearly hourly updates on the situation I have created a
newsletter within yahoogroups. The petition and all the information on the
issue is in the 'files' area. The address is
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scienceactionnet/ (Science Action Network) You
will have to join to get access and notification of new uploads. You cannot
post to the group (it is set up as a newsletter only). For questions please
e-mail me at susanne@maineline.net.
PLEASE JOIN AND HELP SAVE 10,000 IGUANAS TONIGHT!!!!
This site also explains what happened to the Iguana Busters website and the
adoption program. Thank you so very much to everyone who has expressed an
interest in adopting! I apologize for not having gotten back to each of you
individually, I am extremely grateful for your support but have worked 24/7
on this issue for the last few days and have just had no time to answer,
especially since the situation keeps changing so rapidly!!!!
PLEASE JOIN AND TAKE ACTION!
God bless,
Susanne
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