Bad news for Banggai Cardinalfish

[Quagmire]

Don't know if many people know this,but it seems Banggai are in danger of becoming extinct in the wild.According to the last census,they are now only found in 32 or the previous 66 recorded sites.
Dr Alex Vagelli recommended protection under CITES and hoped for a ban on collection.The Phillipine government challenged this in court and came out the winners.
To me it seems the Governments believe $$ take precedence over the possible extinction of these little fish.ORA sells CB Banggai,they cost about twice what wild caught do.Maybe if we talk to our local LFS we can have them stock CB rather than WC,and help keep these guys alive in the wild.

Copy of the proposal for CITES II

http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/14/prop/E14-P19.pdf