The breeding of reptiles is still BTC’s main specialty. During the specified period (2022–2024), more than 100000 specimens were bred at the BTC. This was largely due to the use of Serhiy Prokopiev's breeding stock, which was evacuated from his destroyed house in the Kharkiv area and placed in BTC for temporary keeping.
In 2024 we bred around 300 satanic leaf tailed geckos only, which, taking into account that at the beginning of 2022 during the first weeks of the war we lost about 30% of the breeding stock, can be considered an excellent result.
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.
BTC regularly shares its annual reptile breeding successes from its laboratory complexes with a wide audience on social media (Facebook page with more than 15 500 followers).
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 Ukrainian and International conferences.
In this year we got cb Timon kurdistanikus from Czech Republic, Hosmer’s skinks from Germany and assorted tree monitors species from Indonesia for BTC breeding projects. We continue our work with Parson’s chameleons as well
Information on BION breeding for 2024 can be found in the histogram.