Support for the CSG's administrative and publishing budget comes entirely from private donors. Additional funds, maintained separately, support programs to survey crocodilians in the wild, to conserve those wild populations, to train crocodilian biologists and government wildlife officials, and to overcome crocodilian conservation and management problems.
The CSG works with countries to conserve their wild crocodilian populations. Some of those crocodilian producing nations allow the harvest of skins for sale on the international market, a harvest that is sustainable because the relatively small number of animals taken are replaced by normal reproduction in the population. Every legal skin is marked by a non-removable tag issued by the government, and since poachers cannot obtain the tags, any untagged skin is automatically illegal. Tagging all legal skins in international commerce is a requirement of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), with which the CSG actively collaborates.
Other countries, outside the range of wild crocodilians,
support their conservation by buying and selling only tagged legal skins
from the sustainable harvest in the producing nations. Money from the
sale of the tagged skins directly benefits the crocodilian conservation
programs in the wild. Those funds make it economically worthwhile for
people to protect these toothy predators in the wild and are one of the
reasons that crocodilian conservation is so successful. People earn money
from conserving crocodilians.
If you wish to support one of the most successful wildlife conservation programs in the world:
- Make a onetime monetary contribution in support of the CSG program.
- Pledge annual support.
- Sponsor the training of a crocodilian conservation biologist.
- Fund travel for conservation activities.
- Support production of the Newsletter or other CSG publication.
- Ask your employer to provide Corporate Matching for your personal contribution.
To learn about the opportunity of funding specific conservation projects, contact the CSG Executive Officer at: prosscsg@flmnh.ufl.edu
To make a contribution, print the form below, fill it out, and mail it along with a check drawn on a US bank to:
Dr.
James Perran Ross
Dept Wildlife
Ecology and Conservation
Newins-Ziegler
Hall Box 110430
University
of Florida
Gainesville
FL 32611 USA
Phone
352 392 7137
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Contribution to the Name:______________________________________ Address: ___________________________________ ___________________________________________ Organization:_______________________________ Telephone:_________________________________ Fax:_______________________________________ Email:______________________________________ Total contribution in $US:_____________________ This contribution is: In general support of the CSG:________________ or In support of the specific program:_____________ ___________________________________________ Make checks payable to the 'Crocodile Specialist Group'. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. |
