Good luck on importing them in yourself. It's a big risk. Just make sure you have a broker. Ghana has been very tough to get things out of. I know of many exports/importers here that have been trying there hardest to bring in erosa for the past 6-7 years. Homeana has been ok but will be shut down. IUCN is starting to regulate those species heavily now in Ghana,Senegal, and Benin. Not only is over collection an issue, but there consumption and taboo for religious belief of these species has lighted them very rapidly.Yes I know prices rises massively at the moment. Best example are C. gutatta. Price before ca. 3 years per hatchling was between 60-80€. Today between 120-130. I saw them actually for 160€.
But you see the prices for kinixys rises actually. Because of that I hope I can import them by my self maybe 10 erosa and 10 homeana. The cool thing is that if you import them in the Swiss you can import adult homes.
But we'll see what happen.
Good luck on importing them in yourself. It's a big risk. Just make sure you have a broker. Ghana has been very tough to get things out of. I know of many exports/importers here that have been trying there hardest to bring in erosa for the past 6-7 years. Homeana has been ok but will be shut down. IUCN is starting to regulate those species heavily now in Ghana,Senegal, and Benin. Not only is over collection an issue, but there consumption and taboo for religious belief of these species has lighted them very rapidly.
Awesome. That's a good contact. Good luck. Hope you get some. These will certainly be gone one day.Yes we'll see. Nothing is sure. I've got a friend who has many contacts in west Africa he lived there for some years. He is a "softshell man" so he got a list from Ghana with some softshells and he sees that kinixys stay also there. So he called me and now we will look what is possible. Normally he gets adult erosas out of there.