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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• $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 13:04:35 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 13:39:00 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 13:52:49 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 14:21:59 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 14:57:22 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - RFB, Wed Apr 25 15:15:27 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 15:21:01 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Wed Apr 25 19:42:05 2007
• 400,000??? yeah right! - MiamiExotics, Thu Apr 26 20:52:40 2007
• RE: 400,000??? yeah right! - jobi, Thu Apr 26 21:36:34 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - RFB, Wed Apr 25 15:06:15 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Wed Apr 25 15:30:31 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - lizardheadmike, Wed Apr 25 16:02:32 2007
• If they don't sell them in the US... - daniel1983, Wed Apr 25 16:17:45 2007
• RE: If they don't sell them in the US... - jobi, Wed Apr 25 16:47:33 2007
• Cost won't change thing either... - daniel1983, Wed Apr 25 17:02:32 2007
• RE: Cost won't change thing either... - jobi, Wed Apr 25 17:07:30 2007
• Sure it would..... - rsg, Thu Apr 26 10:54:55 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Thu Apr 26 20:58:37 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Thu Apr 26 21:40:50 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 19:21:50 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - jobi, Sat Apr 28 20:22:26 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 23:52:33 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sat Apr 28 23:56:22 2007
• RE: Look in the classifieds for savannah - jobi, Thu Apr 26 14:54:02 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - nerkhunts, Fri Apr 27 19:28:25 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - tpalopoli, Fri Apr 27 20:42:03 2007
• RE: $100 minimum for the cheapest monitors - MiamiExotics, Sun Apr 29 00:04:13 2007