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I am a board member of a herpetological society that is considering donating some money to organizations who aim to help herps, be it through doing research or conservation efforts. In order to better choose which organizations we should consider, we would like some suggestions from the kingsnake.com community.

If you know of a particular organization that you think is particularly deserving, please post it's name here or email me with the information.

Thank you for your help.

I've always liked the Tortoise Reserve - they have common sense conservation efforts (for both chelonian and crocodilian species), and a few small captive breeding efforts. http://www.tortoisereserve.org/

There's also the MARS Preservation Fund, Inc. - all funds donated to MARS goes to purchase rainforest in Costa Rica. They also donate money to resarch IBD or "star gazers" disease in snakes - one of the few organizations to do so. If a donation were made to MARS, I'm sure you could have it ear-marked for the IBD research (done by Dr. Elliot Jackabson at University of Florida www.vetmed.ufl.edu/sacs). See http://reptileinfo.com/donor.html for more information.

Katrina

What I would suggest you do is look at several conservation groups. I am a member of the chicago herp society and they do fundraising for several different groups as well as offering grants.

Currently the Chicago herp society is working with Project Utila, The Grand Caymen Blue Iguana, The Jamacain Iguana and the TSA donations wise. More info can be found on their grants page.

The iguana work is on www.cyclura.com. Also on Cyclura.com you will find several links on the left hand side to other conservation effort including the TSA.

My suggestion would be to look at those sites and see exactly what you feel needs the most help and offer your members a vote option. The CHS may also be able to assist your group in a grant program.
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I would have to agree with Cindy when she mentions the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. If you take a look at the latest conservation survey the numbers are very alarming. There could be less then 20 animals left in their natural habitat!! There are a couple of organizations working to save this magnificent creature. Go to www.Cyclura.com to learn more.

There's a great rescue I know of run by two great women, Dianne and Gail, www.scalesandtails.org. They do some great work with ferrets, iguanas, and other herps. I adopted two leos from them... Most of the time if you ask them for a list of rescues of a type not listed on site they'll tell you. That's how I got my leos from them --- they didn't want to ship the male leo shown on the site, but mentioned they had two unlisted females. These people do some great work and deserve some help
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