Neal Grant schrieb:
Just thumbing through the GGA photos, and saw Naultinus elegans elegansindeed, but personally I prefer the normal green ones.
"yellow"; quite a beautiful animal.
not outside NZ I think.Its just a small population on the North Island which have this yellow animals.
Which begs the question; why are they not in captivity (or at least not
commonly) and, is anyone working with the yellow form?
Seems like that wouldbe quite a money maker.Thats just the sort of answer which makes the Kiwis, if normal geckokeeper or wildlife protecting officer very,very happy and the answer why they react sometimes very angry if it comes to discussions about keeping their gex outside NZ.
Why is the first thought by looking at this animals : " $$$ " ?
Assuming New Zealand's export laws are anything like Australia's, I canNZ does not allow any export of native specs (plants and animals) for private or commercial purposes. It hasnt been forever this strict ban, but after increasing numbers of illegal exports and poaching mainly for the reason to make money with, they closed the door completely, even for CB animals.
understand why they aren't commonly available.
I am personally not full at their line, but have a certain understanding for them. If you see what prices are taken for the few either CB outside NZ breeded gex and the occasional still smuggled ones, I understand the anger the Kiwis have to see poachers and greedy persons making money with plundering their natural treasures.
Also this guys block the way for all other serious gexkeepers who try to get a few of this gex by legal way for keeping them.And some of the species are quite rare and only small numbers or live in an habitat which is hard to reproduce in captivity, so any loss counts hard.
But certainly it seems that the right person with the right connections andSee above.
the right CITES or similar permits should be able to legally export a few
and begin breeding them...
Long ago It had been a time, where also not NZ residents could inquire for permits and got legal animals. Offsprings of these are still alive at some keepers.
I personally hope that it may be possible again in future.
Seems we have no longer KIWIS on the list, like Bruce Hudson or Daimon Bailey, otherwise we would have more nice posts to this theme.
Just some thoughts
Have a great weekend too
Cheers
JPAAGER
