Breeding Successes

The Wildlife Discovery Center
is very proud of its captive breeding successes.How does breeding
help conservation?Great question!Here’s a few primary
reasons:

Awareness

By captive breeding endangered species, we can bring a great awareness
to the general public where these animals are found.

Fund Raising

Most herp conservation efforts need financial assistance to purchase
habitat, ongoing conservation management, and other critical components
of a successful plan.By captive breeding certain herps and then
selling them to hobbyists, zoos, nature centers, museums, etc we can
generate much needed revenue to donate to these important causes.
When people/facilities purchase captive bred reptiles from us, they
can know that they are also helping to support worldwide herp conservation
efforts.It’s a win-win for everyone!

Conservation

In some cases, we are captive breeding herps with the intention or hope
of one day reintroducing them back into the wild.Our two primary
projects in regard to this component are the blanding’s turtle and
the eastern massasauga rattlesnake.

We would like to thank the Max Schewitz Foundation for their support in helping us to acquire our colony of Australian Knob Tailed Geckos (Nephrurus levis levis and Nephrurus amyae).For more information on this foundation, go to www.MaxAndTheWildthings.com.

Over the past 10 years, we have successfully bred the following species:

SNAKES

LIZARDS

TURTLES/TORTOISES

Future Projects

We are always having fun looking
at future projects in regards to captive breeding projects.In
addition to those already mentioned, here’s a few more that we are
working on right now: