The European Studbook Foundation is an initiative for promoting and maintaining

studbook A breed registry, also known as a herdbook, studbook or register, in animal husbandry, the hobby of animal fancy, is an official list of animals within a specific breed whose parents are known. Animals are usually registered by their breeders w ...

s of

reptiles Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with an ectothermic metabolism and Amniotic egg, amniotic development. Living traditional reptiles comprise four Order (biology), orders: Testudines, Crocodilia, Squamata, and Rhynchocepha ...

and

amphibians Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniote, anamniotic, tetrapod, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class (biology), class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic group encompassing all Tetrapod, tetrapods, but excl ...

in captivity. Founded as O.O.S in 1997 in the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

, it changed to ESF in 2003. Henk Zwartepoorte served as chairman from its inception in 2003 until 2016.

Aims

#Conservation of reptiles and amphibians in captivity, with emphasis on endangered species. #Management of European studbooks. #Management of genetically healthy breeding programmes. #Cooperation with re-introduction programmes. #Gathering, compiling and spreading of knowledge of husbandry and reproduction of reptiles and amphibians.

References

External links

European Studbook Foundation Official Site
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