Hola everyone , i just am writing this thread out of curiosity , in Howletts i remember reading a faded sign in the early 90s about a captive breeding programne for their pythons , and i have just read an article online which states that Howletts once had an intensive breeding programne for this species , why would they breed the pythons if they are so common? what was the purpose of such a programne?
Burmese pythons and a captive breeding programne
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yes it is kind of strange why they would return this species to the wild , i imagine it is probably quite common and low at risk but ill have a look at CITES anyway to check it out , i think the pythons were old when i was there in the late 80s and early 90s also , they had great terrariums though. Hows the royal python amigo?
Ha she's cool, settled in well and I fed her a few days ago
incidentally im going to go to the tienda de mascotas later to get my kingsnake a mouse to feast on , good luck with her is a nice species to keep , ive read the CITES status for this species of python and it lists it as near threatened which is low risk , so it remains a mystery what John Aspinall was doing returning burmese pythons to the wild of indochina , unless it was a front for a shadowy covert operation against communist Vietnam and Ho chi Minh in cooperation with the CIA and the gringos, hehehehe...... only joking friends
johnstoni
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It was around the time they tried to return non subspecific ocelots back to a Central American country. It really didn't make a lot of sense, but it did at the time make John Aspinall look like the parks were actually doing something about conservation. It was before the concept of zoos as fundraising organisations for in situ projects took off.
hmmmm interesting my friend , do you know which central american country the ocelots were going to be returned to ? I imagine it would have been Belize or here in Mexico , but Costa rica has alot of consevation work going on and really los costa ricenses put us other central americans to shame with the amount of work they put into conservation and saving the enviroment.
That said the reason why the Costa ricans have so many of these programnes is because they are such a democratic and model government , most of the time the rest of us central americans are preoccupied with political problems and IMF debt.