Quote Originally Posted by Vipera Berus View Post
I should mention that my tortoises are covered by CITES so anyone who legally wants to purchase one has to get paperwork showing they were bred in the country. If I do breed them then I'm providing a legal source of pets for other people and hopefully can reduce the number of animals being removed from the wild. This is an aspect about breeding that hasn't been mentioned yet.
Correct and it's why I want to breed my savu pythons and dumerils boas. Unfortunately the populations of both species are taking a beating in the wild, and one day the captive specimens may be all that are left.