Locality, locality, locality



Many folks only breed local specific normal herps. Many people do normal locality specifics including alterna, pyro, zonata, klaub, suboc, baird, pic, lep, mitchelli and rosy boa folks. True these are not exotics but not all folks are doing the recessive morphs or exotics. And these species are exotics to the rest of the world. If Mexico would open again I am sure many here would love to get in some new species, locales and blood.



This is why we need a legal pathway to conduct our business locally, nationally and globally. This includes wild harvest and commerce (the life blood of the world economy). Some folks chose to say that their animals are non-locality because of laws prohibting the sale of wild caught or to avoid the negativity some throw about. Some prefer to do just captive born stuff but with all the current and future habitat destruction around existing cities and with the negligable effects to populations from rural collecting, sustainable harvest should be encouraged and legal pathways established. This is why all herps that are not endangered or threatened should be allowed to be sustainably harvested in some numbers and sold, kept or whatever. Most herp species are not bred in captivity just the popular, easy and financially viable ones. This needs improvement, encouragement and legal pathways. The hobbyist assumes the financial burden of maintaining these species in captivity and commerce insures they are able to be bred and sold to expand and spread the captive population globally. Gene pools are preserved in captivity long after the habitat turns into a Walmart or a sub-division. That is conservation and it costs the tax payers as a whole nothing!



Welkerii

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