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Old 27-04-2007, 10:30 AM
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World's only pure blue lizard at risk of extinction
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They are proper blue!
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gorgeous arnt they!!!! lets hope the new breeding program they have started will help maintain the species.
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well they are anoles at the end of the day so CB shouldn't be that hard... What they should do is get around columbian law and hand a few out to breeders around the world. That way the species could be maintained.

How many people would snap up the chance of owning one of them?
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good point.but then we could end up with more in captivity than in the wild,like tigers etc...think they should concentrate on cb in their own country and release to the wild.
easy to say harder to do in practice.
not that i wouldnt say no to having one tho.
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it's demise won't be due to over collection. if it had been collected in the past, i'm sure it would have been propigated. in this day and age, wild collecting and captive propagation may be the only hope for many species. some day it may be possible to reintroduce some species once mankind decides to realisticly set aside habitats. captive breeding serves as a "noah's ark". you can't depend on zoos.
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The blurb under the photos says that the guy spent 4 days trying to find one - and it was eaten by a basilisk immediately after he spotted it.

If this is the reason for them being so rare then releasing them back into the wild may only cause the predatory population to get fatter and they will need to be bred in captivity and safety to survive.
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It took him four days to find one, which was promptly eaten by a Basilisk after he had taken just two pictures. Marent was told that Basilisks are one of the reasons for the demise of the blue anole, though exhaustive conversations with herpetologists now suggest this is not the case.
i didnt want to start a massive debate about this i just wanted to highlight the plight of these beautiful anoles.
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that why after they have increased the population I think they should hand some out to enthusiasts. You can the gurantee the survival of that particular species. Would be a shame to lose something like that.

We could end up with the Hogg Island situation. Hoggs are actually extinct in there natural environment
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that why after they have increased the population I think they should hand some out to enthusiasts. You can the gurantee the survival of that particular species. Would be a shame to lose something like that.

We could end up with the Hogg Island situation. Hoggs are actually extinct in there natural environment
that makes sense...increase the population then distribute to well known private breeders.
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