Chris Anderson
Dr. House of Chameleons
This guy has a lot of chameleons that you can only get from smuggling. They are not exported from Madagascar legally, so everywhere. Although there are claims to some being legal and born in different places of the world and sent to America and the like, they really aren't legal at all. Do a search on parsons chameleons and you can read up on some of the horrors of smuggling.
I'm not an expert, but that is my understanding of it.
Pssh,
Careful about generalizing too much on this topic. With C. p. parsonii there is some possibility of acquiring completely legal captive bred animals as they have been bred into F2 from completely legal bloodlines. As a result there is the potential that legal animals were available to establish breeding programs in some of these other countries for this species. These other species (C. oshaughnessyi and F. rhinoceratus in particular) are a completely different story.
Chris