I agree with your concern for wild monitors and farmed monitors awaiting shipment. I'm not sure what the answer is.

An analogy to me is, Imagine if instead of domestic dogs and cats we were taking wolves and panthers from the wild for everyday pets. This would never happen.

Why is it different with Monitors? I believe the wild population has to suffer from collection for the pet trade. Monitors, snakes or tropical fish, I believe this is detrimental to their longterm survival.

Should their be laws that if its not captive bred you can't own it? We do that in the U.S. with most of our wild life.

I'm concerned with any suggestion that wild caught animals should be more profitable than they currently are. People may stop farming and start collecting Monitors if they could triple their income.

Maybe only certain proven breeders should be able to posses wild caught animals for the purpose of developing CB animals for the pet trade. The rest of us could wait for these CB animals.

And these breeders or farmers could have standards for keeping the animals that would reduce suffering and death.

We shut down puppy mills in the U.S, for not meeting standards. Why not monitors?

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