Hey everyone,
I took a look at this thread, and while i have to admit I didn't dive into the depths of it, I did spend some time reading it.
Our project in Costa Rica (where I am right now) hopes to begin exporting frogs by next year to the States and Europe. The goal of these exports is to raise money for our Indigenous capacity building programs (essentially a zoo-guided captive breeding farm).
One of the keys to success in our minds is very specific locale based information with each frog sent. We plan on accomplishing this through an integration of information gathering and technology.
In addition to location based data available on a per-animal basis, we will include members (a professional membership to our site) with daily environmental data.
We are working with USDA APHIS to try to export organically grown and indigenous collected cacao leaves for the best terrarium substrate possible as well.
I know this is a short and broad description of what we are implementing, and there will probably be questions and comments. I encourage you to go to our site if you are interested in receiving updates (
just fill out the form on the link).
Recently we received a Google Earth Pro grant. We will be launching a campaign to create dynamic maps of locale information as well. Our staff and volunteers have worked for more than four years developing our field applications and are proud that we are starting construction on our captive breeding facility in September of this year thanks in part to a grant from the Zoological Association of America.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, hope we can get this discussion back on track to effectively take our industry and conservation efforts to the next level..
Tom
Project Green Jungle
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