I know several people here make part of hobby organizations that figth for our rigth to do what we love 
I would like to make a sugestion if you guys havent already though of it (I higly doubt you havent but ayways...). I think these hobby organizations besides the GREAT job they already do should have another task as well: make studbooks of less often kept species. This info which would be confidential, would show who is keeping what and where. And with this kind of thing we could avoid situations like what is going on today with lace monitors. If the numbers of a certain species fall bellow a certain number, if the species is rare to beggin with, if a big number of animals perish or if a very interesting mating is in sigth, these animals would be given priority and people would be very encoraged to breed them. There is of corse allot of details that need to be taken into acount, but it would be great to have a studbook made by hobbists for hobbists.
Unfornatly extinction isnt unherd of in our hobby (even tho sucesses greatly outnumber those!). In Europe we used to have hellbenders, but they slippered into forgotten
Golliath frogs, black lacerta pater, centralian death aders, indian pythons, several frogs,etc, were once very popular (or at least much more then they are now) and they all are now extremelly rare in private hands...if there are any left.
There is allways hope, here in Europe the population of exuma island iguana is on the increase from once a practicly handfull of them and there hasbeen a recent sucess of Iguana delicatissima, but that is because the rigth animals were in the rigth hands. All of this animals are amazing and worth keeping, but if we want to be able to do that for a good long time, we must be prepared to go the extra mile and prepair their future.
Many species out there even to they arent fortunatly yet on the level of the very rare, still they are few and far between and vulnerable to get in th list of the very rare if the trend goes on. From mali uros to big head turtles. A stud book isnt the awnser to all but would be a step in the rigth direction.
I would like to make a sugestion if you guys havent already though of it (I higly doubt you havent but ayways...). I think these hobby organizations besides the GREAT job they already do should have another task as well: make studbooks of less often kept species. This info which would be confidential, would show who is keeping what and where. And with this kind of thing we could avoid situations like what is going on today with lace monitors. If the numbers of a certain species fall bellow a certain number, if the species is rare to beggin with, if a big number of animals perish or if a very interesting mating is in sigth, these animals would be given priority and people would be very encoraged to breed them. There is of corse allot of details that need to be taken into acount, but it would be great to have a studbook made by hobbists for hobbists. Unfornatly extinction isnt unherd of in our hobby (even tho sucesses greatly outnumber those!). In Europe we used to have hellbenders, but they slippered into forgotten
Golliath frogs, black lacerta pater, centralian death aders, indian pythons, several frogs,etc, were once very popular (or at least much more then they are now) and they all are now extremelly rare in private hands...if there are any left.
There is allways hope, here in Europe the population of exuma island iguana is on the increase from once a practicly handfull of them and there hasbeen a recent sucess of Iguana delicatissima, but that is because the rigth animals were in the rigth hands. All of this animals are amazing and worth keeping, but if we want to be able to do that for a good long time, we must be prepared to go the extra mile and prepair their future.
Many species out there even to they arent fortunatly yet on the level of the very rare, still they are few and far between and vulnerable to get in th list of the very rare if the trend goes on. From mali uros to big head turtles. A stud book isnt the awnser to all but would be a step in the rigth direction.
