I think you are wrong about that. I think the Indonesian reptile trade favours gravid females of any reptiles. The sad fact is that they will buy anything in order to keep their collectors happy, and throw most of it away. It's an enormously wasteful and unsustaionable trade and because it targets animals that only occur on very small islands it is of great conservation conceren.

You know as well as I do that if it were rare island endemic birds being traded in that way there would be massive efforts to do something about it. But because it's reptiles, very few people care......
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• What % of wild monitors are taken - roadspawn, Wed Jul 5 18:45:44 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - FR, Wed Jul 5 20:07:46 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - odatriad, Wed Jul 5 20:08:58 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - mampam, Thu Jul 6 09:59:35 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - holygouda, Thu Jul 6 10:54:19 2006
• RE: Something for yous twosss should - FR, Thu Jul 6 15:11:03 2006
• RE: Something for yous twosss should - holygouda, Thu Jul 6 20:30:26 2006
• I think... - Neal_, Thu Jul 6 21:32:42 2006
• RE: I think... - holygouda, Thu Jul 6 22:38:31 2006
• RE: I think... - mampam, Fri Jul 7 11:51:12 2006
• RE: Something for yous twosss should - FR, Fri Jul 7 15:50:35 2006
• RE: Something for yous twosss should - mampam, Sun Jul 9 02:18:40 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - FR, Thu Jul 6 14:00:37 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - mampam, Thu Jul 6 20:33:51 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - FR, Fri Jul 7 08:48:36 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - mampam, Fri Jul 7 11:56:33 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - HaroldD, Fri Jul 7 12:43:42 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - mrcota, Sat Jul 8 09:54:55 2006
• RE: What % of wild monitors are taken - mampam, Sun Jul 9 02:09:27 2006