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Chthoniid

Chthoniid

  • Sex: Male
  • Location: New Zealand
  • Status: Pondering the merits of biking today as the weather worsens.
  • Member since: Sep 2005
  • Forum posts: 8
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  • Login status: Online

About me

I've had a passion about wildlife for a very long time and this motivated getting qualifications in zoology and economics. The economics comes from a simple realisation. Most causes of wildlife loss are ultimately economic in nature. Threats like habitat loss and poaching are fundamentally economic in nature. Of late I've been focused more on issues of wildlife poaching.

When I started out as a zoologist, I had a fascination with some of our smallest arachnids- the falsescorpions. Since then I've moved on to various crocodilians, and more recently, tigers. This can take me to smuggling 'hotspots', where avoiding getting eaten by large carnivores, bitten by small venomous reptiles, shot at by smugglers seem to be important skills... Gosh, sometimes I miss falsescorpions.

Like many other conservationists, I've also developed a keen interest in wildlife photography.

Fast facts

  • At the movies I like to see:Eastwood-directed movies
  • Music I listen to:80's Alternative mostly, with an odd foray into other decades.
  • Best album right now:REM: Automatic for the People
  • Favorite sports team:All Blacks
  • I'm passionate about:...err, wildlife :-)
  • I wish I could:Afford to quit my day-job to focus on wildlife entirely
  • On my vacation I..:spend more time with my family.
  • If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Quit my day-job to focus on wildlife completely