This post is all about education, you see though some of us have been educating peoples for decades, still little progress is being made.

Of course stopping import is in no way a solution, and you are right it will not save the monitors, but if your willing to share your apple pie and make it more profitable for these peoples to collect pet trade animals, then perhaps this will slow the skin trade?
In any case keepers will take better care of an animal they dearly have paid for.

As for education most peoples have there facts upside down!
Once a guy asked me help in designing a basin he could take on tour to display his crocodilians, he needed to get in the water with them, how is this about education? Its more about getting attention!

If I anyone was really about education, the programme would start with the 100,000s dieing imports, not with look at me I can manage a 200lbs reptile. To educate others about husbandry you need to show what bad husbandry leads too first.

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