You said you were concerned about monitors being taken from the wild for the pet trade. My point is that the pet trade is a drop in the bucket. If they are not sold in the pet trade they will end up being wallets and boots and belts or someone's dinner (or all four.). A good case in point along that line, is 3 malaysian leaf turtles I own (Cyclemmys dentata.) the jobber I bought them from got them from a guy in Indonesia who acquired them by going through the food markets and picking out his turtles to be shipped here. Had they not made it here they would quite literally been someone's dinner. about four years ago I might add. I think they might prefer their current enclosure and pond over the stewpot they were heading for.

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