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<blockquote data-quote="Ceratogyrus" data-source="post: 36376" data-attributes="member: 371"><p>Lots of people have illegal baboon spiders in their collection. Mostly wild caught.</p><p>You need a permit to keep them in captivity which is very hard to get. Regarding people in the hobby, there are only 2 of us that I know of who have permits.</p><p>There is a huge black market on these as they are collected and illegally exported out of the country. Just look at any South African spider that is available in the hobby. As no permits have ever been issued for the export of local spiders, spiders such as Harpactira species (Including pulchripes) and spiders such as Idiothele mira have all been illegally collected and exported. I am currently working on getting permits made available for captive bred stock that I breed, but quite a bit of red tape to go through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ceratogyrus, post: 36376, member: 371"] Lots of people have illegal baboon spiders in their collection. Mostly wild caught. You need a permit to keep them in captivity which is very hard to get. Regarding people in the hobby, there are only 2 of us that I know of who have permits. There is a huge black market on these as they are collected and illegally exported out of the country. Just look at any South African spider that is available in the hobby. As no permits have ever been issued for the export of local spiders, spiders such as Harpactira species (Including pulchripes) and spiders such as Idiothele mira have all been illegally collected and exported. I am currently working on getting permits made available for captive bred stock that I breed, but quite a bit of red tape to go through. [/QUOTE]
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