Professional Breeding of Giant Snakes

[nikkubus]

this brings up something i’ve felt strongly about and have experimented with in arachnid keeping that i would also like to bring into my snake keeping - my dream is to be able to keep/produce specimens so pure, so true to nature that i could actually work with conservationists to combat the extinction of endangered species - i originally got the idea through keeping pokies/Poecilotheria genus tarantulas that are endemic to India and of whom, most species in the genus are critically endangered due to pollution, industrialization, climate change, etc - i truly believe that the divide between hobbyists and scientists could be mended thru such mutually beneficial arrangements

this is what I would prefer to do rather than euthanize and all of this - i would much rather donate my surplus to conservationists to study or release back into the wild rather trying to make a buck by killing them and selling them for cobra food

If that is a dream of yours, I would work on finding a group working on a particular species to work with them, because it's going to need to be a large scale to preserve enough genetic variation for something like that to be considered to be released back to the wild, and it would probably require importing wild animals in the first place or working with stock that has been heavily outbred with strong records. They are incredibly strict about that even in heavily endangered species because the animal needs to be able to withstand shifts in the environment.