Varanidae
Member
Hello ZooChat 
I'm just an ordinary guy from Norway with a heart for reptilians.
Unfortunately Norway is one of the very few countries in the world still clinging to ban on all reptiles in private captivity, a ban without any reasonable cause that is. The people who shut down any progress on this ban does so because they have a personal phobia against "slimy snakes". So it is easy to see that they have no clue what they are talking about...
So in order to legally be around my passion I turned my head to zoos a few years ago, that brought with it an increasing interest in all animals in addition to reptiles. Luckily for me a small zoo was forming right in my neighborhood, which is lucky considering the scarce amount of zoos in Norway. The zoo is called Haugaland Zoo if anybody knows it. Some two years later and I have spent much of my free time volunteering at the zoo and getting to work with animals.
During the last few years I have also taken up photography, animal photography of course
This is something I really enjoy, being around animals and playing around with my camera. I spend a lot of the spring and summer outside, looking for and photographing the wild reptiles here in Norway, mostly the common adder. Being somewhat in the zoo-community here in Norway I have gotten some great opportunities to photograph the animals at the different zoos, and also some of the reptiles that illegally resides in norwegian homes.
And that's basically me, I'm looking forward to explore more of this site.
I'm just an ordinary guy from Norway with a heart for reptilians.
Unfortunately Norway is one of the very few countries in the world still clinging to ban on all reptiles in private captivity, a ban without any reasonable cause that is. The people who shut down any progress on this ban does so because they have a personal phobia against "slimy snakes". So it is easy to see that they have no clue what they are talking about...
So in order to legally be around my passion I turned my head to zoos a few years ago, that brought with it an increasing interest in all animals in addition to reptiles. Luckily for me a small zoo was forming right in my neighborhood, which is lucky considering the scarce amount of zoos in Norway. The zoo is called Haugaland Zoo if anybody knows it. Some two years later and I have spent much of my free time volunteering at the zoo and getting to work with animals.
During the last few years I have also taken up photography, animal photography of course
This is something I really enjoy, being around animals and playing around with my camera. I spend a lot of the spring and summer outside, looking for and photographing the wild reptiles here in Norway, mostly the common adder. Being somewhat in the zoo-community here in Norway I have gotten some great opportunities to photograph the animals at the different zoos, and also some of the reptiles that illegally resides in norwegian homes.
And that's basically me, I'm looking forward to explore more of this site.
