How can axolotl be both critically endangered and so cheap and available in pet stores?
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Like many amphibians Axolotl don’t require much to breed in capitivity and for a professional breeder they’re pretty low cost and low effort.
In the wild they also share the same problems as many other amphibians in that they’re very vulnerable to habitat destruction and pollution (it’s even more of a problem for the axolotl since they can’t even move short distances over land) and in the case of the Axolotl their habitat is being overrun by Mexico city (the lakes that haven’t been drained have problems with pollution). And as if that wasn’t enough several predator species have been introduced into the lake/canal system where there is still an axolotl population.
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