There is only one Suriname locale , it's called Suriname.

Basically one road / trail leads out of town / Paramaribo into the Jungle along the way there are a couple bridges that are falling apart. These are ID points . The large one is known as the second bridge . This one crosses the Suriname river. This area has been hunted to death but still produces plenty of animals.

After that the next stop is 10 hours of brutal travel to the town of Aporra . This is where most of the animals sold in the trade are bought from the hunters . A long the way animals can be caught here and there. Nobody gets locality data that's worth anything. The stuff is just randomly collected. There is a spot called Champion falls that's sometimes hunted it's a long boat ride from Aporra but the hunting is good there so sometimes hunters make the trip. The stuff from there looks the same as the stuff from everywhere else.I haven't seen anything that would be distinguishing in the animals collected in any part of Suriname. They all look the same.

Trappers also go into town and sell to the exporters. The dealers also trade, buy , sell and ship stuff with and for each other just like the dealers here do. Some breed . Animals go from one guy to the next and nobody cares or asks where they were caught. This how 99% of the stuff from Suriname is collected, bought and sold. Guys aren't running all over the jungle to special locales they just keep hunting the same spots over a relatively small range. If you ask the hunters where they caught something they could take you to the exact spot but there's no way they could describe it except in a general way.


As far as Redtails being shuffled between Guyana and Suriname. VERY unlikely. The reason being these snakes are common in both country's. The local hunters can bring the exporters more then could ever sell . No body in Suriname works near the Guyana boarder and nobody is going to make that trip unless there's something very special involved . At one time the Blue Tincs made the trip worth it but thats been long over.


The pic. that's me grabbing emerald on the way to Aporra.

Ernie Eison
Westwood Acres reptile farms Inc.

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