New species of Tarantula

boina

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The link worked for me, too, and it's a very interesting article. South America sounds like spider paradise.
 
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JoeRossi said:
http://www.birdspiders.com/gallery/index.php/search?q=Hapalotremus&submit=Go
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Thank you for the link to pictures.

As an importer, do you know if these will be likely to make it into the hobby? Seems like lately an increasing number of countries are banning exportation of animals. What's Peru's stance on the matter?

Obviously i don't want to go take thousands of them out of the wild for hobbyists, but if some quality breeders could get a a hold of enough to start a CB population that would be awesome!
 
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Theneil said:
Thank you for the link to pictures.

As an importer, do you know if these will be likely to make it into the hobby? Seems like lately, an increasing number of countries are banning the exportation of animals. What's Peru's stance on the matter?

Obviously, I don't want to go take thousands of them out of the wild for hobbyists, but if some quality breeders could get a hold of enough to start a CB population that would be awesome!
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For now, we can enjoy the pictures .....yet it is possible someone has a few specimens in their collection somewhere overseas. If the spider makes it's way to captive breeding overseas I am certain some will try and import quickly as such was the case for sazamai. However, with recent, "crackdown" on species that were illegally taken from their native environment, bred overseas, and then imported without a given countries permission then almost anything is up for confiscation. After all, most of the T's in the hobby were acquired this way at some point. There are very few spiders that are or have been legally exported from their native environment to other countries overseas compared to the amount that have not. Now with this knowledge, that it is being frowned upon, it would appear some are taking steps to work with their countries laws to try and establish legal exportation like a few I know of in Mexico. Others like to draw attention to themselves through social media and other platforms to brag about the fact they are acquiring these species and obvious monetary motivations can play a role as well.
 
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I will watch this thread, I like reading about new discoveries, especially if it's a dwarf tarantula. By the way the link worked for me on my Galaxy s9.
 
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PanzoN88 said:
I will watch this thread, I like reading about new discoveries, especially if it's a dwarf tarantula. By the way the link worked for me on my Galaxy s9.
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I think the website was having issues. Originally it would like half load the page with an error at the bottom, now it works fine. At least that is how it happened for me.
 
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Theneil said:
I think the website was having issues. Originally it would like half load the page with an error at the bottom, now it works fine. At least that is how it happened for me.
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Yeah it was the web server itself. I checked the html source it served me last night and in it said something about the server failing to fetch the correct files
 
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