During a recent session of the 31st Meeting of the CITES Animals Committee, Malaysia were denied permission to increase their export...

Zoonosis – a natural barrier to disease transmission Disease crossover in our food and livestock systems is a growing threat. Reptiles...

Until now, reptile farming has been predominantly pro-poor. For the most part it remains a cottage industry made up of small, family-run...

Historically, farming reptiles was not easy. The differences between cold-blooded reptiles and warm-blooded livestock is vast. Reptiles...

​ Commercially farmed reptiles exhibit the full suite of essential agricultural life history traits. They grow fast, reach maturity early...

Reptile meat is a cultural norm for nearly half the world’s population. The practice is mostly confined to the tropics where an abundance...

Global livestock production systems reflect a European colonial legacy. Worldwide, conventional farmed species are skewed towards the...

Global food production systems are at a cross roads. The natural environment on which our food supplies depend is approaching a tipping...