What are some animals that are usually not in collections because of politics?

Mayki said:
This is what I suspected, but I was cautious to not rule out other possibilities.
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Fair, but nothing's been legally exported off the Galapagos in 63 years now - and as Chlidonias pointed out a few posts upthread, even if they were labeled as captive-bred individuals they most likely are not.
Chlidonias said:
Once some original animals are laundered as "captive-bred" then any number of wild-smuggled animals can then be traded because there is existing "captive breeding" stock from which to export them. They may indeed be breeding them there, but it is significantly faster and more profitable to smuggle lizards than it is to breed them.
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Not to attack anybody but could it be that some cases of banning certain species from ex situ programmes be just gate keeping?
 
Politics shouldn't interfere with keeping animals between scientific based zoos in my opinion, but it is what it is and it's not gonna change anytime soon
 
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