What I find funny is you have high hopes to sell this species.



I have high hopes of developing nice colour morphs!

I have high hopes of improving my husbandry methods!



But I do not care the least if I sell them or not, I overdosed on selling my babies to public long ago, they kill them or mistreat them in ways I can’t even understand.



This is why most of my agamid end up as monitor food, I only keep the exceptional colourful, and offer very limited numbers to serious keepers.



The situation in Vietnam is really critical, more so then any Asian country, I have a friend working there, hear part of an email from yesterday.



In fact I can send you loads of documents about Vietnam present conditions.

Rgds



The encouraging news about VN is that the government is starting to take notice of the need for environmental protection. They have just established the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE) which is to regulate and police exploitation of forestry, oceans, rivers and other natural resources . But they are really in their infancy and have not been given much teeth for a guard dog. Organizations like the Asian Development Bank (my ex employer), the World Bank, UNDP, as well as NGOs like the WWF have started to put pressure on the government with some success. There are now some environment protection oriented projects supported by these groups which also include policy dialog and regulation components. It's a slow process however and some bad habits do die hard.



It doesn't help as you suggest that large areas of the country have been poisoned by dioxin during the war (agent orange) and the land is still very much contaminated. My work in the last 3 years was in those areas where in part we were trying to find alternative income generation activities for farmers who can't produce adequate crops on their contaminated land.

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