Importance of Involvement: Why it Matters
There is a lack of information and education surrounding reptiles. This is among the prevalent misinformation and myths about reptiles. Some of these venomous reptiles can be deadly!
In addition, more people are likely to care for and help reptiles with more education about reptiles. With education, you can change people's habits to protect not only reptiles but their environment too. Also, with increased education about reptiles, more people will be less scared of reptiles, reducing their negative stigma and motivating more people to care about their local environment and the animals within it.
Reptiles also have a very positive effect on their environments. They inhabit and impact all continents except Antarctica and play a huge role in their ecosystems. To learn more about how reptiles help your local environment and the globe, visit the following link.
Organizations That Help Reptiles to Fund
The following links are to official organizations' home pages. These are a great place to give if you are able and willing to supply monetary support for reptiles.
- ARC - Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy
- https://www.awarewildlife.org/
- Georgia Herpetological Association and Rescue
- IHS - The International Herpetological Symposium
- IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Orianne Society
- TTPG - Turtle and Tortoise Preservation Group
- UGA College of Veterinary Medicine
- US ARK - United States Association of Reptile Keepers
- Wildlife SOS in India
Go Local!
Reptiles play a significant role in your local environment, and you are able to more easily create a huge impact in places where you live near. Locally it is easy to find events where people are picking up trash, spreading awareness, or educating people about reptiles. You can participate in these events and make a great impact in your local community. In addition, if you participate in your local community, you can meet people who live near you who are also passionate about the environment, zoology, or herpetology.
Ways to Help Reptiles and Ways You Didn't Know You May Be Hurting Reptiles
Here are some more pages on this website to learn more about some easy, actionable steps to help and stop hurting reptiles in your local environment.
Education, Breaking Myths, and Spreading Awareness
To help reptiles in your local environment and globally, it is essential to spread proper awareness and education and eliminate misinformation and reptile myths. This is very important to help people from being misinformed so that people can understand, care more about, and overall be safer around reptiles. This not only helps reptiles but also the people who are educated and the entirety of your local environment. Please work in your local community to dispel myths and mis-education about reptiles. If you know more about reptiles, you can gently correct people spreading dangerous myths and set the record straight for the people you interact with and generations to come.
The following pages are about common myths that I see frequently.
Purpose of HerpetologyHub
Many people are uneducated about reptile dangers, behavior, and benefits. Reptiles have a bad stigma that I hope to reduce. Not many people care about reptiles, and there is a lack of education in the community about reptiles. They also have a negative reputation. In addition, there is a lot of false information in movies and many myths people repeat and learn. I will address this root cause by education. I will teach and encourage people to learn more about reptiles through this website and other means.
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