How is it that axolotls are listed as “critically endangered” species, but they are allowed to be pets that don’t even sell for more that much?

Question

Apparently there are breeders making Axolotls and they only go for a few hundred bucks at most. How is this possible? And how are so many people able to own them as pets if they are very close to extinction?

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Answer 1

The same way snow leopards in the wild are exceedingly rare and hard to spot but you can see about a million of them when you visit Joe Exotic and his shit.