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I would like to thank kingsnake.com for stepping up to the plate here. I admit I never thoroughly read all the rules pertaining to what can and cannot be posted, so maybe we did inadvertently bend some rules by talking dollar figures and generating funding. I suppose we should have explained the situation first, and asked for permission to do this. That being said, I’m very grateful they are now allowing this. I don’t want to sound like a suck-up, but we take a good thing for granted here. This is a HUGE site…we are very unlikely to get this kind of traffic elsewhere. And numbers are our friend when we are trying to gain support for conservation efforts.

Ever since I first started working with the indigo snake working group …a group that started in Florida in early 1991, (almost 3 years now), I’ve been promoting kingsnake.com’s indigo forum as the primary communication mechanism for matters pertaining to indigo conservation / recovery.

I think we’ve made some real progress in the last few years and had the fortune of getting some valuable people on board.

I started the indigo snake breeder’s conservation alliance right here….and we are gaining support from a growing number of people.

The visitors to this forum have proven again and again to be intelligent and highly motivated people, who have opened their minds (and sometimes their wallets) to the concept of doing what ever we can to ensure survival of this species.

It will be a long time before something as valid as Natalie’s program comes along again to directly influence indigo snake conservation, and many of you understand that and have stepped up in a big way to help.

I don’t even want to mention names of those who have helped for fear I’d leave someone out.
As time goes on…I would like to continue to have new ideas for conservation / education develop right here.

Anyway…I although I agree that censorship is a bad thing…I think we need to be a little less quick to criticize this site until they are given the opportunity to hear us out and make a decision.

I hope to keep our primary home right here.

…in the end we will save only what we love
…we will love only what we understand…
…we will understand only what we are taught.

--Baba Dioam / Senegalese Conservationist

I am in complete agreement with you Dean...I, too, am thankful for what Kingsnake has done for me (personally and professionally)...hopefully the others will come back. Although I was pretty ticked off initially, I am a pretty forgiving person and there's no hard feelings. I received a very positive letter from Kingsnake and they are going to give me (us) permission to place posts here to try to raise support for couperi conservation efforts. Their only request, and this is coming with their prior approval, is that I begin the post with "This post approved by special permission from Kingsnake.com)...no problem with that. So, lets keep the ball rolling! Rob Carmichael