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BION BION & HERPEROCULTURE

The Herpetoculture (similar to aquaculture) is large scale breeding of invertebrates, amphibians and reptiles for the needs of reptile keepers’ and breeders’ community and pet industry. The reason is quite obvious: a lot of people like to have these unusual creatures as pets. Herpetoculture has evolved thanks to possibility of compact housing, high fertility of many species and constant development of breeding techniques. This business also includes producers of food items, various mineral and vitamin supplementation, terrariums and other equipment (lamps, foggers, automatic systems, decorations), as well as availability of special literature.

Herpetoculture started in the USA in the 1980's and is now widely spread around the world. Proper breeding centers, farms and private sector exist in, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Holland, Germany, USA, Canada, Japan, Thailand, China, Salvador, Columbia, Bolivia and many other countries.

Currently, some people profess false ideas about herpetoculture, presenting it as a kind of negative phenomenon that competes the issue of preventing the extinction of species. Unfortunately, many extremist nature conservationists prefer to see the animal extinct in nature rather than agree with its keeping and breeding in zooculture. They stubbornly do not want to see the real picture of degradation of natural populations, against which the creation of reserve populations may become the only possible solution to stopping or at least delaying the species extinction.

In Ukraine, BION Terrarium Center has been successfully operating and developing for over last 29 years. Today BION is a complex of  Breeding Center, Reptile’s zoo and  non profit «Responsible Zooculture» foundation,  located in Kyiv and in a country. All animals undergo complete technological process of breeding - from raising captive bred juveniles to making breeding pairs/groups of adult, sexually mature animals. Breeding process is always recorded in a form of statistics, photo and video reports. The origin of breeding stock is well documented and meet all CITES requirements. We do our best to make our activity transparent. BION breeding news is regularly posted on Facebook with about 15,000 subscribers.

Since 1993 to present, 121 species of amphibians and reptiles were bred at the BION Terrarium Center. We developed techniques for ex situ breeding of many rare and popular species in laboratory conditions.

Responsible Zooculture/Responsible Herpetoculture  is supported by CITES, IUCN & WAZA as an alternative to the exploitation of natural resources.

We hope that a new look at the issues of animals’ keeping and breeding will make it possible to re-evaluate the possibilities and role of herpetoculture in preserving the biological diversity of our planet.

USEFUL TIPS:

- Mexican tarantula (Brachypelma smithi Pickard-Cambridge, 1897) reaches puberty at 3 years. One female lays up to 600 eggs, with 50% hatching and growing babies;

imported Brachypelma smithi (Brachypelma hamorii)

- blue Australian frog (Pelodryas (Litoria) caerulea (White, 1790)) reaches puberty at 3 years. One female lays up to 300 eggs, with 80-90% of hatchlings;

- veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus Duméril and Bibron, 1851) reaches puberty at 6-8 months. One female can lay up to 200 eggs during one breeding season, with 70% of successful hatching.

Veiled chameleon