As usual, Wildlife traders rejoice in the 'grey area' of the law. But over the past couple years its bizarre appearance has been splashed across social media sites for reptile collectors. The same seller was also offering Tigers for sale, which reinforces the 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). “Earless monitor lizards existing outside range countries have all been obtained illegally. Barely seen since its description in 1878, the species has suddenly become a victim of wildlife trafficking for the pet trade. 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. Lanthanotus borneensis or the Earless Monitor Lizard had long remained virtually unknown to the outside world due to its subterranean habits and limited distribution in north-western Borneo.Unknown, that is, until recently gaining attention from unscrupulous reptile collectors. offered “a bunch of Borneo Earless Monitors for sale, export available”. (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. This was just as well, according to loris expert Anna Nekaris, who says that slow lorises have become increasingly endangered worldwide by the illegal pet trade after people have seen them on YouTube videos. 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. Credit: The Guardian, private collection. Image 3 provides evidence of the quantity the seller is offering. While this decidedly-quirky attention may seem benign, it could actually threaten the species’ existence, according to a new report from the wildlife trade group, TRAFFIC.Only found on the island of Borneo, the earless monitor lizard (“These are all thought to be adaptations to a subterranean lifestyle,” reads the TRAFFIC report entitled But it’s this very unusualness that appears to have made the species a sudden collector’s item for reptile-lovers willing to break the law. 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. Our EIN or tax ID is 45-3714703. 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. This is not true, it simply means that there has not been enough biological study on these guys, their habitats, distribution and how well they adapt to 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. In the words of Movie scientist Dr Kyohei Yamane " Godzilla should not be destroyed, he should be studied! “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. 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. Ideally, the new owners of Borneo earless monitors will recognize their rarity and save any that perish for a museum. "Share:                                                      Lizards at Terraristika fair. 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. In fact, the earless monitor lizard hasn’t even been evaluated by the IUCN Red List, which determines how imperiled a species is. 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 (Lanthanotus borneensis). NOTICE: S&B is taking a break. Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. It is often the unusual, rare and exotic that capture the attention of wildlife collectors, and the more unusual, rare and exotic the better. HUNTED FOR. All animals recorded outside the range States, prior to a CITES listing, would be seen as ‘Pre-Convention’ and thereby effectively ‘legalized’. When you buy a lizard from us, you automatically receive our …


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