BION Breeding Center: doing our best to ensure healthy reptile’s surplus

BION Breeding Center

Main idea of BTC breeding center is to bring and establish certain rare and hard to breed species in reserve populations, make our contribution to development of ex situ conservation, create new and update already existing husbandry approaches . BTC is developing the technical, resource, and personnel capabilities necessary to establish reserve populations of rare and valuable species.

So far, 120 species of amphibians and reptiles have been bred at BTC across 32 years. We have developed techniques for ex situ breeding of many species in artificial conditions.

All animals undergo a complete technological process of breeding - from raising captive bred juveniles to making breeding pairs/groups of adult sexually mature animals. The breeding process is always recorded in the form of statistics, photo and video reports. The origin of breeding stock is well documented and meets all CITES requirements. We do our best to make our activity transparent.  For a long time, the BTC actively published the reports of its professional activities (husbandry and breeding care sheets and results and breeding reports) as well as scientific articles released in international peer-reviewed publications, including ones from the Scopus lists; the materials and abstracts of  herpetological conferences.

One might think that it is just another business. Well, our business part is just the way of self-sustainability, as we don’t have any patrons and we have to earn our life on our own. It helps us to maintain our collection, continue our work, meet the needs of the global market (therefore making illegal trade and poaching senseless) which results in wild populations remaining safe and are no longer of interest to mass poachers. But the danger of total destruction or change of suitable habitats always remains. In these terms, our work provides gene pool of healthy captive bred animals and methods of work with them, that might be useful for rewilding projects or for support of remaining wild populations. Thus, an idea of Conservation through Commercialization seems to be workable!

Through collaborations with reputable organizations like the German Association of  Terrariumists and Herpetologists  (DGHT), the Responsible Reptile Keeping organization from the Great Btitain (RRK), the Herpetofauna Foundation, The Netherlands and others, -  BTC promotes Herpetoculture as a powerful tool for ex situ conservation. BTC long-term breeding results and statistics provide a serious base for international expertise and scientific conclusions to oppose the activity of animal rights campaigners.

We are always  open for collaboration with reliable private breeders, zoos and other Reptile positive oriented institutions!

For many years we are working with breeders and dealers from all over the world to get animals with different gene pools. A lot of species are bred in several generations.

We pay special attention to their health and well-being and gladly share our knowledge with all interested parties. New species are added every year and new breeding projects are started on a regular basis. Pls follow us on BION webpage, FB, Instagram and Patreon!

LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR FROM A NEW TRADE PARTNERS !

BION team

BION is a friendly and professional team. Today, we have 30 staff members engaged in the care and breeding of reptiles. Part of them has degrees in biology and everyone is highly experienced and full of enthusiasm and great love for animals. 3 people are involved in research and 3 – in marketing and sales, 2 persons working in logistic and 3 in administration.

BION facilities

Currently we utilize 20 laboratories, a greenhouse for large species, quarantine area, and  laboratories for breeding various insects to ensure a healthy diet for our animals. The total area of our facilities exceeds 2000 m². This enables us to keep simultaneously about 70 reptile species in quantities. Thus, we can comply with the requests for popular and rare reptiles’ species

To produce quality surplus  we tried our best to  create optimal for reptile husbandry and reproduction conditions:

• facilities and cages suited for individual species needs;
  • poper temperature, lighting, humidity;
  • clean and healthy enclosures;
• balanced nutrition.

Therefore, taking animals from BION, you can be sure you get healthy reptiles.

You are always welcome to visit our center to make sure all reptiles are kept in adequate conditions and/or to get more knowledge about their husbandry.

BION speciality

As it was indicated before, from 1993 to the present time, we have bred 121 species of amphibians and reptiles.

The following groups of reptiles are being kept & bred at the BION Breeding Center for today:

• Chameleons
• Cuban false chameleons
• Leaf-tailed geckos (keeping one of the largest found stock of 7 Uroplatus spp at the world)
• Terrestrial geckos
• Agamas 
• Agamas (including Spiny-tailed lizards)
• Iguanas (including Rhino iguanas)
• Jewelled lizards (Ocellated lizards)
• Philippine Sailfin dragons
• Skinks (Tiliqua and Egernia species)
• Armadillo lizard (few breeding groups)
• Monitors
• Tortoises
• And much more

BRED AT BION SINCE 1993:

We are always happy to answer your questions and provide proper information about any reptile species we keep and  breed .

In fact, we make money through sale of reptiles.

But it is also true that we invest our profit in RHF www.responsibleherpetoculture.foundation