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I was wondering if there are any zoos or private individuals that are working with alterna from otherwise restricted locales (ie, confiscated animals originating from Big Bend, New Mexico, or Mexico)

I can see a couple of reasons why nothing from these odd localities would pan out. One big issue is some of the past stupidity of the department of the interior. I had a dark phase Langtry blairs, a light phase river road and a light phase Lajitas alterna confiscated from me during a bogus sting (Operation RockCut). As it turned out when they had to drop all the charges against anybody they had built a case against. Which I was never charged with hunting in any illegal areas to begin with. They had already released all those alterna into the Big Bend National Park prior to any convictions. This is a bad practice in so many ways, one is that they have taken a captive animal from another locality and introduced it to a protected population. Another is what if they are wrong (which they were) and need to return the animals to their rightful owner (which they couldn’t now).

Besides that issue, they would never legalize any protected locality by turning over confiscated animals to a private individual. I just cannot see that happening.

I know that this has occured with other species of animals that were illegally transported from Mexico into the US. I just thought maybe this would be how some other alterna locales could become legally available in the future. Oh well. I guess not.

I found some reptile eggs in New Mexico. I took them home with me (which is perfectly legal) and they hatched out to be alterna. Owning alterna in NM is legal as well. So I'd have NM locale alterna with no laws broken (if everything went fine and dandy).

Yeah, I know it's far fetched, but that's how it'd "have" to be done....
Snakes of Eddy County, NM

Maybe it should happen that way for somebody?

personaly though the only reptile eggs I ever found in the wild belonged to hemidactylis in Hawaii

But you have my best wishes and moral support on the cause.