Another major radiated tortoise confiscation in Madagascar

[mark1]

well since you respect this organizations opinion here's some reading for you , what made me think of this is that this organization started the same year as the eastern recovery plan ………..without the government ban on ddt like pesticides/insecticides none of it would have mattered anyway ……..

Chapter 32Using Science and Technology to Reestablish Species Lost in Nature
TOM J. CADE

Director of Raptor Research, Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK219263/

Although the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act, is nominally in charge of the program, The Peregrine Fund has also worked closely with the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and to some extent with other federal agencies, as well as with 13 state wildlife departments and, occasionally, with county and municipal authorities. Last year no fewer than 50 government agencies and offices, conservation organizations, universities, and businesses of one sort or another, were directly involved in some aspect of the eastern program. Financial support has come from numerous conservation organizations, foundations, corporations, several thousand private individuals, and federal and state agencies.

Louisiana Alligator Ranching, 1986-2010

Historical Data
Louisiana Wildlife&Fisheries

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/...33674-historical-data/ranchingtable4-4-11.pdf

 

[mark1]

Ok this may sound very “political incorrect “ , but you guys never consider the huge difference in the ways general public’s view in conservation between US and Madagascar? Or wealthy First world country VS poor Third world country
Many things that are common practice in US won’t work at all in other parts of world .

That’s why I think commercial farming would be the only way to save radiata . Because no matter how many you released back to the wild , they’ll just end up on the local dinner tables because the Madagascar government is not gonna make sure it’s people can live a prosper life like the Americans .

very true , but what's also true is what you said about taking a long time and expense to raise a tortoise to breeding age , it's free and quick to go catch one ……..

 

[kazjimmy]

very true , but what's also true is what you said about taking a long time and expense to raise a tortoise to breeding age , it's free and quick to go catch one ……..

I said we collect all their eggs is better then smuggling the adult. Let the hobbyist raise them. Demand and supply. Once we have enough supply. Demand goes down.