This lizard is popular with reptile breeding projects, and attains a length of 32 to 38 inches. “Maintaining a healthy population in those few locations on Borneo is paramount to lessen any impact illegal takings may have already had,” reads the report. These events coincided with the increased worldwide demand for palm oil, which has led deforestation and destruction of habitats in Indonesia and Malaysia. Parent stock has been illegallyTRAFFIC recommends that the international community add the earless monitor lizard to Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, which would bar any cross-border trade worldwide. Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703. Although some captive breeding has been reported in Indonesia, and in its preferred habitat, it could spell more trouble as wild caught individuals are laundered through captive breeding stock.Even if claims of captive breeding are true, the parent stock will have been illegally obtained, and new blood is always required to keep the gene pool fresh.Good news for the species, as of September 2016, the earless monitor lizard received international protection under Appendix II listing of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meaning trade is closely controlled and is not allowed without a CITES export permit.Although some collectors argue that because the earless monitor holds no IUCN red listing that it is not endangered and safe to trade. I'm sure the majority of us, knowing the facts, wouldn't want to trade these animals but nevertheless, some reptile collectors just had to have one for their own when the tiny monitor lizard started showing up in reptile forums in 2012, what followed was a huge spike in illegal harvesting. The earless monitor lizard certainly fits the bill; With piercing blue eyes and lack of visible ears, endemic to the island of Borneo, it is so distinct that it is the only species in it's taxonomic family, Lanthanotidae. Green Tree Monitor Varanus prasinus. Baby bosc monitors all doing well. HUNTED FOR. But a Peruvian organization is now using a public campaign, via social media and press releases, to track and rescue illegally kept wildlife in the country. “Our research highlights the importance of the Internet and social media in the trafficking of species in high demand by specialist collectors: the reach online traders have is both instant and global,” said report co-author Sarah Stoner, Senior Wildlife Crime Analyst at TRAFFIC.The group has documented earless monitor lizards illegally for sale in Japan, the Ukraine, France, Germany, and the Czech Republic.“Intelligence information shows that earless monitor lizards are being actively targeted by a small but prolific group ofThis trend is hugely concerning for a species about which almost nothing is known. Habitat: Borneo Status: Not Evaluated No, this isn’t a baby Godzilla; but it may be just as rare as one! Barely seen since its description in 1878, the species has suddenly become a victim of wildlife trafficking for the pet trade. (03/10/2014) Indonesia’s Islamic clerics drew praise from conservation groups last week after the top clerical body in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country issued a (02/25/2014) Last week, the musical artist, Lady Gaga, was ‘nipped’ by the world’s only venomous primate, a slow loris, in a misguided attempt to use the animal in a new music video. Selling earless monitors in Europe is not illegal, and was easily found by a Guardian investigator at theOf course, traders often deny that their specimens are collected from the wild and insist they are bred in captivity for commercial sale as pets. Even if it is illegal and comes from a stock captured monstrously from the wild and transported hundreds of miles, where most likely not all of its comrades survived the journey. (09/04/2014) Illegal wildlife trafficking is thriving in Peru. TRAFFIC believes the species would at least be considered Vulnerable, if not Endangered, “on the basis of its small area of occupancy, its fragmented distribution with fewerCurrently the species is legally protected in all the countries in which it is found–Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei–making any trade illegal.

Because the earless monitor was unprotected under CITES, law enforcement had little legal grounds to seize animals outside Borneo, despite their protective status banning any export at all. Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. (08/17/2014) Google Earth has spurred the discovery of another new species. Borneo Earless Monitor Found in West Kalimantan. This would be legal but, captive breeding is difficult and not possible for all species, international experts doubt it would be viable for the earless monitor lizard.

This is the Borneo Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) which can only be found in – you guessed it – northern Borneo.. ‘I have filed 47 complaints from 14 different states in Peru including hundreds of animals commercialized illegally in markets, kept as pets, and used as tourist attractions,’ said Noga Shanee, Co-founder and project director of Neotropical Primate Conservation. If you’ve never heard of the earless monitor lizard, you’re not alone: this little-known, cryptic lizard has long-escaped the attention of the larger public. offered “a bunch of Borneo Earless Monitors for sale, export available”. The Reptile Report - This paper presents the first published record of the cryptic Borneo Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis Steindachner, 1877) from West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo).

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