Sunday, August 7, 2011

Starting a zoo? advice please?

Working on starting a zoo in Missouri with emphasis on smaller and lesser known animal species. I have a lot of experience with frogs, and have a reference library on exotic animals. I have joined American Association of Zoo Keepers, the Feline Conservation Federation, United Peafowl Association, American Pheasant and Waterfowl Society and am a former Board of Directors member for the Chicago Herpetological Society. I have written a couple articles on frogs for Animal Finders Guide magazine. Missouri has rather liberal animal ownership laws and I am looking for around 20 acres in a rural setting near Kansas City. I would exhibit what Gerald Durrell called "little brown jobs" as opposed to traditional charismatic megafauna, like servals or caracal lynx instead of lions or marmosets or tamarins instead of chimpanzees for example. I would have a killer amphibian display especially since so many species have gone extinct in such a short period of time and frogs are my favorite animals. Suggestions and advice are requested. I am older so not a kid by any means and really want to make this happen. Animals are my life and I will focus on conservation and education, setting it up as a non profit and working on mentorship and in situ conservation for habitat preservation. Thank you in advance.

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