Caudataculture centre

[yago]

Hi all
Well, I don’t know how to start. I few months ago I ask about the possibility to create a breeding centre. Well, that idea had evolve into a real project of cauadataculture. I started to work seriously with that project few month ago along with a partner(business plan, local, importers, suppliers, breeders, government contacts…). I was in charge of all the paperwork, public relations, business plan, website and so on. And my partner was the one in charge of the centre itself. Unfortunately, my partner had some personal problems last week and the project ended up unexpectedly. I was going to announce it publicly during April and the opening was expected by November. Unhappily, that won’t happen. I have expend quite a lot of efforts on that project. Everything was almost set but I ended up with no specialist worker for the centre. As the work is already done I am posting a brief plus a few pics of the caudataculture plan and designs. If anyone is interested please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely and sadly
Yago

Here is the translation of the first page, it is the briefing of the project.

Project URODELA tries to offer to the community (herpetologists, scientific, veterinary, biologists, doctors, enthusiastic, fans...) the first centre of caudatoculture. The URODELA objectives are:

-Objective
1. to encourage and to coordinate projects with scientific, medical, biological intentions...
2. to provide information and contacts in agreement with the interested administrations.
3. to facilitate the study and the knowledge
4. maintenance and sustainable and effective breeding in captivity
5. Diffusion of caudates to scientific, medical, informative, citizen communities...
6. To compete with the activities of black and not controlled market
7. To offer our services and products to all the European Community.
8. To obtain fitted objective and quantifiable programs results beyond abstractions.
9. Study of caudates diseases and treatments.
10. Supply centre for: scientists - doctors - biologists - herpetologists - veterinaries - universities – zoological institutions - enthusiastics - fans - repopulations of extremely affected areas (governments, UE...)

-Products:

1. Caudates (newts and salamanders)
2. Aquariums, terrariums, paladariums, etc.
3. Maintenance systems such as filters, pumps, refrigerators...
4. natural decoration (plats, moss, substrata, trunks, stones...)
5. alive and congealed food for caudades (daphnia, tubifex, red larva, etc)
6. Books, videos, magazines, etc.

-Services:

1. Real or virtual point of contact between herpetologists, biologists, scientists, doctors, fans...
2. Caudataculture Centre
3. Specialized veterinary Service in caudades
4. Diffusion of the relevance of the caudares
5. System of identification cc (bred in captivity)
6. UE Regulation
7. UE Export
8. Monitorization of caudates necessities :Water composition (ph, hardness...), risks, diseases, behaviours, larvae raising, etc.
9. Website in Catalan, Spanish and English with:
10. Caudata information
11. Maintenance techniques by species
12. Centre information about pilot projects, collaborations, reintroductions...
13. Live Webcam in the centre
14. E-commerce (caudates, material, refrigerators, setups, foods, publications, videos...)
15. Links with other Web sites (caudate.org…)
16. Club with services such as:
17. Conferences and social gatherings about maintenance, taxonomy, studies, discoveries...
18. Fieldtrips to observe caudades in wild state.
19. Photographic competitions
20. Expert lessons in subjects as rearing juveniles in captivity, techniques to create microhabitats, etc.
21. Organization of enthusiastic encounter between European people and activities.
22. etc.

 

[s.t.]

Those pics look absolutely fabulous! I'm sure many of us would love to have a setup like that! It sounds like you've put a lot of work into this. I'm sure there are lots of people who would jump at the possibility of taking over your previous partner's position.

 

[yago]

Well, I certainly did a lot of work. I did a forty pages document, plus several folders with research papers, laws documents, legislation, contacts…
Well, the work is already done so time will tell. It is a misfortune for enthusiasts since the necessity to provide one European legislation for all country members, a caudataculture centre, specialist veterinarian service, collaborations and interactions with private breeders, a club, sustainable captive breeding for very rare and endangered species, specialize products and services supply, live food service, European mailing service and a long so on would have make a huge leap forward.
I am just curious that there are no so much opinions on that apart from some private e-mailing to my personal account.

 

[nate]

I'd love to see it become a reality, personally. But being here in the US, there's not much I can contribute. I wish you luck with it.