Egg Imports?

[Justin Carl]

Is it illegal to ship in eggs from protected species?
If you had eggs from farm raised Parsonii could you ship them out of the country?
Is it restricted to certain species or all?
What species if any?

 

[Chris Anderson]

Eggs, tissue samples, dead specimens or any part of a CITES listed species is protected by the same laws as the entire live specimen. Yes, it is illegal to export parsonii eggs from Madagascar under any circumstances.

Chris

 

[Justin Carl]

Thanks Chris.
Wouldnt it be very easy to lable them as "Pardalis".
Does this happen?
I could see people being very creative with the available market on these animals.

 

[Chris Anderson]

You mean as babies or as eggs? Baby pardalis and baby parsonii look nothing alike and I don't think most inspection agencies would allow egg export for the simple reason that they can't be identified.

Chris

 

[Justin Carl]

Yes, I ment eggs.
Yea, I would think the same thing becuast they cant be identified, but they may allow eggs out.
Your not sure though?

 

[Brad Ramsey]

Aside from regulations, I don't think you'd have much success hatching them anyway.
Eggs should not be turned or moved much at all ... I would think after that trip your chances of having any babies would be very low to none.

-Brad

 

[mattjillson]

Smuggling Parson eggs to farming locations in Indo and Thailand is not unheard of. Once hatched they become farmed animals that are legal to export to say England and then to the US or Japan.

 

[SuperRad]

Aside from regulations, I don't think you'd have much success hatching them anyway.
Eggs should not be turned or moved much at all ... I would think after that trip your chances of having any babies would be very low to none.

-Brad

Unless you plan on making an omelette ehh? Yummm

 

[Dankmeleon]

or having an easter egg hunt for some kids that you don't care for much

 

[Justin Carl]

I really dont think it would be hard to transport eggs.
You take a couple of precautions while packing and they should be fine.
People transport eggs all the time without problems.
Why would chameleon eggs be any different?

 

[Dankmeleon]

even with the best carrier service in the world they are bound to get a lil bit of waves and motion on the journey

 

[Will Hayward]

Consider that the shipment would spend nearly a couple days being packed, shipped, and received. It will change temperatures several times during this period. The vibrations and temperature changes along the way could have you receiving scrambled e(ggs)mbroys. There have been eggs that are dropped in the bag with gravid females during that period, and some have hatched, but with a very low success rate.

I don't think it's worth the risk to attempt moving parsonii eggs on airplanes. Let them hatch in the wild and in farms and be used to breed there. Besides there are plenty of parsons out there, it's just not publically announced often. Given the slow maturation, long courtship, and extremely long incubation, it's going to be some time before they are more commonly available in the US, but for the price tag, I'm thinking most of you are fine with waiting till then.