I am stationed in Okinawa Japan and I was shopping at a store similar to a Wal-Mart they have a small animal section and they always have tortoises usually russains, leopards, and sulcutas. Today they had two Indian stars maybe three the third one looked like a radiata I am not to good at telling them apart and I didn’t have a camera with me. My question is they where selling all three for about $200 U.S. Two where only about 2-3 inches long the other was about 6-8. My question is for the price would either be a good buy as far as the species. More importantly does anyone have any information about shipping are those species even legal to ship without a permit. I would not buy them if I can’t bring them back to the states any info would be appreciated.
Reptile & Amphibian Forums
Welcome to kingsnake.com's message board system. Here you may share and discuss information with others about your favorite reptile and amphibian related topics such as care and feeding, caging requirements, permits and licenses, and more. Launched in 1997, the kingsnake.com message board system is one of the oldest and largest systems on the internet.
Bringing tortoise from Japan?
Replies (1)
Well first off if the one is a Radiated it can not be shipped at all as it is an endangered CITES app I species. The others can be shipped legally but would require export CITES issued from Japan and you would have to have an import license in the US to even bring them in. OF course there are other things that need to be done to import animals from other countries but unless you are totally informed on all the requirements and legal ramifications that could come from improper importation it is not really a good idea to try.
-----
Rob Trenor
RK Reptiles
www.rkreptiles.com
www.rkreptiles.net
www.oldworldchameleons.com
www.ballpythonmorphs.net
www.beardedragons.com
_____
